The work started where mistakes become physical: firmware, radios, constrained devices, and networks with hard timing. That discipline now governs real-time AI. The stack changed; the standard did not: explicit owners, bounded failure, measurable recovery, and evidence that survives contact with production.
The happy path is cheap. Cancellation, pressure, and recovery are designed first.
Retrieved context, instinct, and confidence are evidence—not permission to act.
Per-turn traces, queue age, and percentiles tell the truth an average will not.
Side effects stay bounded, state stays visible, and rollback remains the least dramatic part of the system.
I am a lead software engineer based in Istanbul. Today I work on real-time multimodal AI platforms: voice, tools, memory, retrieval, persistence, and the operational paths that keep long-lived sessions dependable.
Before that work moved up the stack, it moved through it—production infrastructure, embedded and RTOS firmware, access-control protocols, UWB localization, Linux networking, TSN, eBPF, and XDP. I still see those areas as one continuum. Each layer changes the constraints, not the obligation to understand what the system is doing.
That is why I keep building outside the immediate job: an operating system, a programming language, ray tracers, a WASM/WebGPU game, control surfaces, small electronics, and the infrastructure behind the tools I use. Building from scratch turns abstractions back into mechanisms.
Engineering is the main practice, not the whole identity. Sound, physical making, and time outdoors keep curiosity attached to the senses and to the real conditions a clean abstraction can hide.
I am an audiophile and make electronic music. Music production and EDM sound design—rumble kicks, trance synths, dynamics, and texture—are a parallel craft where timing, restraint, and tiny changes are immediately audible.
listening · synthesis · dynamics · textureI like ideas that can leave the screen. Electronics, hardware/software prototypes, 3D modeling, firmware, home automation, and tactile control surfaces give me a direct loop between an interface and physical behavior.
electronics · controllers · fabrication · automationI cycle, go hiking and camping, climb, and snowboard. I am drawn to activities where terrain, weather, momentum, risk, and the limits of the body stay present—conditions that cannot be abstracted away.
cycling · hiking · climbing · snowboardingWhether the medium is a low-latency agent, a packet path, a sound, or a route through the mountains, I am drawn to work where feedback is real, constraints matter, and quality is felt before it is explained.