about

Founder at heart. Engineer by trade. Obsessed with making AI work in the real world.

I've been building things since my MSc thesis on mobile sensor data pipelines at METU in 2015. Since then: Trendoline (social app, Turkey and SF), Zillion Pitches (AI pitch analysis, San Francisco), Countercheck (anti-counterfeiting intelligence, European patent EP 4 323 939 B1), and now CTO at Wasteer, where AI is embedded into every part of how the team works.

This blog is a chronological record of what I've built, what broke, and what I learned along the way. Written from the perspective of someone who was in it, not looking back from a comfortable distance.