Converting OCD
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
to IxD
Interaction design

since 2003.

I am an engineering leader with multidisciplinary design background and strong product sense. In recent years, I have focused on engineering management, driving technical strategy and execution. Here you can find detailed information about my work, or download my resume.

First things first:

personality

I love anything technical.
I respect intelligence and praise beauty.
Learning is like eating to me. I crave a lot.
I enjoy creating systems, down to every little component.
~~My computer is my best friend. Don’t tell my wife.~~Someone told her.

Let’s talk about

professional skills

I have a wide range of digital product experience. My design work is focused on UI/UX/IxD while my development work is focused on design engineering and web app development.

Design

Development

Planning
branding, product strategy, asset management
Marketing
visuals, emails, ads, social media
User Experience
research, ideation, wireframing, mockups
User Interface
layout, typography, color, usability, IA
Interaction
prototyping, visual representations, animations
Frontend
architecture, markup, styling, DOM, APIs, web/mobile
Backend
architecture, auth, data processing, API
Database
modeling, management, CRUD
QA
cross-browser testing, end-to-end testing, unit testing

Know-how

Experience in managing product engineering teams
Technical knowledge to create scalable software systems
Proficiency in writing reusable and performant code
Expertise on user experience design and user research
Understanding of design principles and Gestalt theory
Strong recognition of visual identity

Analytical Skills

Design-oriented problem solving
Creative ideation and conceptualization
Balancing form and function on any given matter
Developing models with contextual and visual coherence
Discriminative and comparative case study and analysis
Data-driven decision making and product analytics

Technical Skills

- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- PHP
- Swift
- Node
- Express
- GraphQL
- REST
- Mongo
- SQL
- React
- Web APIs
- DOM
- HTML
- CSS
- Sass
- Tailwind
- React Native
- Expo
- SwiftUI
- iOS SDKs
- Vite
- Webpack
- DevTools
- CLIs
- SDKs
- Git
- LLMs
- Agents
- Workflows
- Monitoring
- Orchestration
- Usability
- Wireframing
- Storyboarding
- User research
- Prototyping
- Design systems
- Interaction design
- Responsive design
- Compatibility
- Animations
- Accessibility
- SEO
- Branding
- Typography
- Print design
- Data visualization
- Sketch
- Figma
- Photoshop
- Illustrator

What about some

experience

I have been working with/for startups to design and develop their digital products, manage their engineering teams, and delivering significant results since 2007. My freelance web design work starts even before that.

Labris Networks
Kodobur
Fraktal Proje
Semantica
Digitoy GamesConsultancy
Grou.ps
Docu.ai
Base64.ai
Validato
Black KiteConsultancy
aiXplain
Freelance

2007
2008
2009
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2012
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2016
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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026

Employment
Consultancy
Independent

aiXplain
Head of Engineering
November 2024 — PresentSan Josehybrid
Managed engineering teams (frontend, backend, and DevOp/MLOps). Designed and developed the next generation of the product suite: Studio (no-code agent builder), Store (marketplace for agentic AI applications), and Console (account hub).
aiXplain
Head of Engineering, UX
March 2023 — November 2024San Josehybrid
Managed UX team, a hybrid of product and frontend teams. Designed and developed Bel Esprit, the AI assistant that plans, builds, and auto-deploys AI pipelines.
aiXplain
Frontend Team Lead
February 2022 — March 2023San Joseremote
Managed frontend team. Designed and developed the no-code product suite: Discover (AI asset marketplace), Benchmark (model evaluation), FineTune (model fine-tuning), Design (AI pipeline builder), AutoMode (model ensembler).
Validato
Senior Frontend Engineer + Designer
November 2020 — January 2022Londonremote
Hired to work on a highly complex cybersecurity breach and attack simulator AI product. Designed and developed customer-facing web application, and also its admin panel and the email alert system.
Base64.ai
Senior Full-Stack Engineer + Designer
January 2020 — April 2020New YorkremoteEmployee #1
Hired to develop a document understanding AI product. Worked on the data extraction technology and its API on the backend. Designed and developed customer-facing web application, and also its mobile applications for both Android and iOS platforms.
Docu.ai
Senior Full-Stack Engineer + Designer
April 2019 — January 2020San FranciscoremoteEmployee #1
Hired to develop an OCR-based document classification and data extraction AI product. Designed and developed customer-facing web application, and also tools for mass document processing, data correction, and dataset creation+management.
Grou.ps
Senior Full-Stack Engineer + Designer
February 2018 — April 2019RenoremoteCofounder (GraphJS)
Hired to develop GraphJS, a client-side library for enabling social features (messaging, following, etc.) on any website. Designed and developed it in its entirety, and also the customer-facing web application to create, edit, customize all social components.
Semantica
CEO + CTO
December 2013 — April 2016San FranciscoonsiteFounder
Founded the company to create better social feedback tools. Hired and managed a team of four after my startup raised a seed investment. Designed, developed, and shipped three products called Piccture, Cardz, and Favogue.
Fraktal Proje
Cofounder
January 2013 — September 2013AnkaraonsiteCofounder
Kodobur
Frontend Engineer + Designer
October 2010 — August 2012Ankararemote
Labris Networks
Frontend Engineer + Designer
August 2008 — May 2009Ankaraonsite