Furkan Tunalı CV

Info

  • Name: M. Furkan TUNALI
  • Current residency: Berlin

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Summary

Experienced AI, software and platform engineer building scalable full-stack systems, cloud infrastructure, and agentic AI pipelines.

Skills

  • AI LangGraph, LangChain, Ollama, MCP, PydanticAI, AutoGen
  • Infrastructure Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Docker, Terraform, Nginx, Cloudflare, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, TeamCity
  • Back-End Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, NestJS, Express
  • Front-End React, NextJS, Vue.js, Nuxt, HTML, CSS, PostCSS, SCSS, Wireframing
  • Storage PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, MongoDB

Recent Projects

  • Newsify Today: AI news platform & ChatGPT App (MCP App)

    ChatGPT App demo video ChatGPT App demo video

    Near zero-cost, self-hosted Agentic AI pipeline curates, reviews, scores, and summarizes trending news in real time across the world.

    • LangGraph agent with self-hosted Ollama (Qwen) (3 nodes) + Gemini fallback; MCP server shipped as ChatGPT App.

    • Self-hosted Kubernetes, SSE to Next.js, GitHub Actions CI/CD, Grafana observability.

    Stack: TypeScript, Python, NestJS, Next.js, React, LangGraph, LangChain, Ollama, Gemini API, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ, MicroK8s, Docker, Cloudflare, Grafana/Loki/Tempo, OpenAI App SDK, Turborepo

Experiences

  • AI, Platform and DX Engineer at heyData GmbH, Berlin 01/2022 - 08/2025

    • Senior AI Solutions Engineer 10/2024 - 08/2025

      • Built AI workflow with OpenAI & Tavily APIs analyzing customer input to auto-identify GDPR vendors, researching hosting locations, DPO emails, and privacy policy links for compliance automation.

    • Senior Platform Engineer 10/2023 - 10/2024

      • Led ECS to Kubernetes (EKS) migration with zero downtime; built Terraform IaC across AWS (Fargate, ECS, ECR, CloudFormation, RDS, EC2, Cloud Map, Route53, Lambda); mentored new DevOps members

    • Senior DX and Full-stack Engineer 01/2022 - 10/2023

      • Restructured Rails monolith into 25+ microservices monorepo; implemented Docker Compose for fast and reliable development iterations; CI/CD & AWS ECR; implemented EventBridge scheduling; established, supported, hired and mentored engineering team; built DX tooling.

    Stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, NestJS, Nuxt, Vue, Rails, Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, AWS (ECS, ECR, CloudFormation, EventBridge), Docker, GitHub Actions, OpenAI API, Tavily, PydanticAI

  • Senior Software Architect at Société Générale, Berlin 09/2019 - 05/2020

    Containerized AI/ML models and Jupyter Notebooks with pipeline to Azure CUDA; integrated Microsoft Entra ID and MVP monorepo orchestration; represented the organization among global software architects to align roadmaps, and drove key decisions on infrastructure, tooling, and security.

    Stack: Azure, Docker, Vue.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Apollo, PostgreSQL, Azure Functions, GitHub Actions

  • Lead Front-End Developer at Chantelle, Berlin 08/2017 - 12/2018

    Managed front-end team (hiring, onboarding, planning); restructured monolith to microservices, introduced code quality conventions, automated tests, A/B testing, and UI component library bridging UX and engineering.

    Stack: React, GraphQL, Redux, AWS, Koa, MongoDB, WebPack, Magento

  • Senior Back-end Architect at GameBook AG, Berlin 12/2018 - 04/2019

    Profiled performance bottlenecks, drove data migrations, and improved containerization and workflows.

    Stack: Ramda, Node.js, React, Redux, GraphQL, AWS, Docker, MongoDB, TeamCity

  • Full-stack JavaScript Engineer at Pixsy GmbH, Berlin 01/2017 - 08/2017

    BDD tests; queue system with AWS Lambda; integrations of MongoDB, Stripe & SalesForce.

    Stack: React, Redux, AWS Lambda, Koa, MongoDB, Stripe, SalesForce, Sentry

  • Software Architect at Talented Square, CA 08/2015 - 08/2016

    Led front-end refactoring for ASDA and Walmart; implemented MVP for recruiting startup.

    Stack: Angular, JavaScript, Backbone, LoopBack, MySQL, MongoDB

Earlier Experiences

Founder

NOD studios

11/2012 - 07/2015

Design, Web & mobile for BeinSports, Les Benjamins, Ulker

Full-stack web developer

FOX TV Channels

01/2012 - 12/2012

Design, Social apps & CRM for Samsung, National Geographic, Nokia

Founding Front-end Engineer

projectz

06/2011 - 12/2011

UI design & development for QA startup

Full-stack developer

WPP / JWT

05/2009 - 06/2011

CRM/CMS/Web services for Miller, Turkcell, Eston, Efes

Full-stack developer

Saatchi & Saatchi

05/2008 - 03/2009

Web development for Garanti BBVA & Turk Telekom

Front-end developer

Tribal DDB Worldwide

03/2009 - 05/2009

Front-end for Turk Telekom

Designer, front-end and Flash developer

Koçak Design

05/2008 - 03/2009

Led UI for a art marketplace startup

Designer & Front-end developer

MedyaNova

05/2005 - 02/2007

Websites including Best Western Hotels

Education

Interests

Music • Swimming • Photography • Sci-Fi • 80s • Design