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Co-Founder & CTO

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  • R&D collective turned venture studio; shipped 0→1 products with a 12-person team.
  • Developed LLM-powered tools using OpenAI API, tool use/agents, RAG, and GraphRAG.
  • Led flagship projects: GUS/TreesAI – an agent-based modeling framework (open source) including pilots and fundraising; Dataville – compute-to-data privacy platform including pilots, prototypes, and fundraising.
  • Utilized Python, SQL, big data technologies (Spark, Kafka, Airflow), CI/CD and DevOps workflows, vector databases and embeddings, human-in-the-loop evaluations, ABM and simulations.
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
1 year 2 months

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Takeaway.com

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London, United Kingdom

Big Data Engineer

Treatwell UK

Oct 2012 - Jan 2014
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Software Engineer

Delivery Hero

Aug 2010 - Apr 2012
1 year 9 months
Singapore

Software Engineer

Ideal Wealth Management

Summary

I build research infrastructure and socio-technical AI systems. Co-founded Lucidminds AI (2018–24), an R&D collective turned venture studio shipping 0→1 products.

Recent work: LACE (self-organizing research companion) and an agentic digitization platform for a major European media group (Bertelsmann SE). Earlier: GUS/TreesAI (ABM framework OSS) and Dataville (compute-to-data privacy).

Skills

  • Building Production Systems, Data Pipelines, Research Tools
  • Agent Architectures And Tool Orchestration (Planning, Guardrails, Observability)
  • Retrieval/embeddings And Knowledge-graph Extraction
  • Rapid Prototyping And Iteration
  • Privacy-aware Architecture (Compute-to-data Design)
  • Productization And End-to-end Delivery In Enterprise Contexts
  • Python, Sql
  • Llms (Openai Api, Tool-use/agents, Rag, Graphrag)
  • Abm And Simulations
  • Human-in-the-loop Evaluations
  • Vector Databases, Embeddings
  • Big Data: Spark, Kafka, Airflow
  • Ci/cd, Devops Workflows

Languages

Turkish
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2008 - Jun 2012

Istanbul Bilgi University

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · İstanbul, Turkey

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