Senior AI Solutions Engineer10/2024 – 07/2025
Every heyData client has a compliance database of the tools and apps they use, with each tool's data location, data-protection contact, privacy policy and category. A specialist built it by hand, tool by tool, every time a customer onboarded. I replaced that with an AI agent that researches and verifies every field, each answer sourced, and keeps the database up to date.
Senior Platform Engineer10/2023 – 10/2024
Led the company's move from ECS to Kubernetes, learning it myself, and cut production over with no downtime. Packaged it to run self-hosted or outside US clouds. Set it all up as code, and mentored the DevOps team, handing Kubernetes projects over for them to own.
Senior DX and Full-stack Engineer01/2022 – 10/2023
As the first engineer, and its most active contributor that first year, I built the foundation the team still runs on: the shared codebase, the company's first local dev setup, the architecture and boilerplate, and the CI/CD behind its 25+ microservices. I folded its two legacy monoliths, the CRM and the admin app, into one monorepo, helped hire and mentored the engineers, and built the internal tooling the team works in.
Stack TypeScript · Python · NestJS · Nuxt · Rails · Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS (EKS, ECS, ECR, CloudFormation, EventBridge) · Docker · GitHub Actions · OpenAI API · Tavily · PydanticAI
Deployed the group's AI and machine-learning models to Azure with GPU (CUDA) support, containerising the models and notebooks to run in production. Added secure company sign-on, and represented the Berlin office in the group's global software-architecture team.
Stack Azure · Docker · Vue.js · TypeScript · GraphQL · Apollo · PostgreSQL · Azure Functions · GitHub Actions
As back-end architect, I refactored services, fixed performance bottlenecks, ran data migrations, and improved the containerisation and release flow.
Stack Ramda · Node.js · React · Redux · GraphQL · AWS · Docker · MongoDB · TeamCity
Led the front-end team and pulled scattered components and design into one shared library. I packaged the team's tooling (ESLint, Babel, build), brought in TDD and a functional-programming style, and published the shareable logic as open-source packages. Beyond the front-end, I made the case for breaking the Magento monolith into Node.js microservices and built the proof of concept, proxying Magento and peeling services off one at a time from authentication on. The company carried that to a Google Cloud microservices platform.
Stack React · GraphQL · Redux · AWS · Koa · MongoDB · WebPack · Magento
On Pixsy, the reverse-image-search service that finds stolen photos across the web, I worked full-stack on the React and Node monorepo. I re-architected its core workload, the large-scale image finding, scoring and matching, onto a serverless AWS Lambda queue, so it scaled on demand and ran more reliably and far cheaper than the setup it replaced. I also owned the Stripe payments and built the deep Salesforce integration the product relied on, all under behaviour-driven tests.
Stack React · Redux · AWS Lambda · Koa · MongoDB · Stripe · SalesForce · Sentry
Led the front-end performance overhaul of ASDA's online store (Walmart's UK brand). Found where the load time was going and cut key page loads by up to 62%, so customers moved from browsing to basket to checkout faster.
Stack Angular · JavaScript · Backbone · LoopBack · MySQL · MongoDB
Founder
NOD studios
01/2013 – 08/2015
This was my own studio. I found my own clients (Les Benjamins, beIN Sports, ALJ Toyota, Mazda, Ülker), designed and built each project end to end, and managed freelancers.
Full-stack web developer
FOX TV Channels
01/2012 – 12/2012
Social apps and micro-sites for Samsung, National Geographic, Nokia, and FOX shows.
Founding Front-end Engineer
projectz
07/2011 – 12/2011
Front-end for the YardimLazim.com startup
Full-stack developer
WPP / JWT
05/2009 – 06/2011
Built CRM, CMS and social web apps, front and back end, for Turkcell, Türk Telekom, Efes, Miller, Eston and TeraBrokers.
Front-end developer
Tribal DDB Worldwide (formerly Manadigital)
03/2009 – 05/2009
Front-end for Türk Telekom
Designer & front-end developer
Koçak Design
09/2007 – 03/2008
Front-end and design for the Yedinci Kent startup.
Designer & front-end developer
MedyaNova
04/2005 – 08/2007
Front-end and design, including Best Western and other hotel sites.