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A generalistcomputer engineer in Ankara — writing about cloud, code & whatever else I’m curious about that quarter.
Currently building at the intersection of serverless, retrieval, and developer tools. Previously: mobile, payments, infra. MSc at ITU, AWS Community Builder, co-organizer of Cloud Turkey.
The shortest path from an idea to something real is a terminal, a cursor, and an evening.
I keep a running notebook of things I notice at the boundary between software and the people using it. Most of these become posts; a few become products; the best ones become both.
My current bets: serverless is underrated for small teams; LLM tooling is five years behind the platforms it runs on; writing still compounds faster than code.
A native Swift iOS app for scanning, signing, and sending documents worldwide with real-time delivery tracking.
Leading the local AWS community in Ankara through meetups, talks, and smaller sessions between the larger tentpole events.
Co-organizing the largest cloud-native community in Türkiye. Newsletters, open-source day, study groups. Ongoing.
A declarative gateway that ports across AWS, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel without lock-in. Written in Go, built for the frugal.