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Nearly a decade across embedded engineering, fintech, and consumer product — now focused entirely on AI. I lead the AI transformation at AVILOO, the global leader in independent EV battery diagnostics.

Experience

Apr 2026 – Present Wiener Neudorf / Vienna

Head of AI — AVILOO GmbH

AVILOO is the global leader in independent battery diagnostics for electric vehicles — manufacturer-independent tests that read battery health down to the individual cell, used by OEM dealer networks, fleets, leasing operators, and remarketing platforms across more than 30 countries. I lead the company-wide AI transformation.

  • Own AVILOO’s AI strategy and roadmap end to end — from where AI belongs in the business to what actually ships
  • Drive internal AI enablement across engineering, operations, and go-to-market: agentic workflows, internal tooling, and the training and adoption work that makes them stick
  • Built AI-powered strategy dashboards that turn operational and battery-diagnostic data into decisions leadership can act on
  • Moved company localisation onto agentic workflows — content now ships in 28 languages without a manual translation loop
  • Building the AI platform underneath it all: data pipelines, model serving, evaluation harnesses, and governance
  • Run a recurring internal workshop series that takes whole teams from LLM fundamentals to writing custom skills and wiring models into real tools via MCP
Feb 2024 – Apr 2026 Vienna / New York

Director of Product — Arena Inc.

Arena is a SocialFi platform combining embedded wallets, perpetual trading, token launches, and social features.

  • Enabled AI agents across the social platform and designed an agent economy layer within the social app
  • Led a team of 12 engineers and 3 designers
  • Integrated perpetuals trading via Hyperliquid; $100M volume in first month
  • DEX reached $500M cumulative volume since May 2025
  • Scaled platform from ~2k to ~16k DAU
  • Shipped embedded wallets (EVM + Solana), account abstraction, cross-chain protocols
  • Social login to wallet provisioning (Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok)
  • Launched platform token with staking and revenue sharing; ~$200M FDV peak
May 2022 – Feb 2024 Vienna

Product & Engineering Lead — Ural e.U.

Consumer NFT and gaming launches on Avalanche and Starknet. Managed 3 engineers, 2 designers, 4 artists. Products: OOPA, FlipBlob, Platypus. Concept to launch across UX, smart-contract integration, and release operations.

Mar 2021 – May 2022 Vienna

Software Engineer (AR / Embedded) — Snap Inc.

Embedded software for Snap smart glasses. Built userspace libraries interfacing with Android and custom Linux sensor drivers. Collaborated across hardware, firmware, and product design.

Aug 2018 – Jan 2019 Istanbul

Software Engineer — Airties

Core software for telecom customers. Triaged and fixed production issues.

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 Istanbul

Embedded Software Engineer — Accenture

Embedded components across multiple client projects. Istanbul.

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 Ankara

Embedded Software Engineer — Volrad

Firmware and peripheral drivers on bare-metal PIC microcontrollers. Ankara.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science — METU, Ankara · 2016–2017
  • B.S. Electronics Engineering — Ankara University · 2008–2015

Skills

AI: AI strategy and transformation, agentic workflows, LLM application design, prompt and context engineering, evals and benchmarking, MCP and tool integration, model routing and cost control, org-wide AI enablement and training

AI platform & data: data pipelines, model serving, evaluation harnesses, analytics and strategy dashboards, observability, governance

Product: strategy, roadmaps, discovery, execution, growth loops, stakeholder management, user research, launch planning, competitive analysis

Crypto / Fintech: non-custodial wallets (EOA, MPC, AA), cross-chain protocols, DeFi integrations, DEX/swaps, Layer 2, on/off-ramps, token design, social trading

Technical: Solidity, Rust, Python, C/C++, Cairo, smart-contract integration, API design, embedded systems

Blockchain: EVM chains, Solana, Avalanche, Starknet, Base, Arbitrum, BNB

Languages: Turkish (native), English (fluent), German (intermediate)