Building external and internal developer tooling in Go for distributed and scalable reliability and load testing, including browser automation using the low-level Chrome DevTools Protocol, an ECMAScript interpreter, and an agentic deep research AI using LLMs to crawl, analyze, and report production alerts.

Taught Go to 100K+ developers by writing a book for Manning Publications, creating an online course, running a popular blog, and maintaining an open-source repository with nearly 20K stars. Occasionally contributed to the Go programming language, including adding the -failfast flag to the Go test runner.

Hired, trained, and led 20 Go developers across multiple companies.

Co-founded the first in-image AdTech company (similar to Google AdSense) in Turkey that focused on crawling and semantically categorizing images using artificial intelligence (deep learning). Designed a distributed time-series and analytics database. Led software and reliability engineers, UI designers, and sales teams.

Co-founded the first in-text AdTech company in Turkey, later acquired by Ströer. Led the technology and product development departments and transitioned the company to Scrum and XP. Experienced in building distributed, web-scale software.