Some Things About Me
- Grew up in Turkey.
- Have been on the Internet since the early 2000s.
- Spent the past year as a digital nomad, traveling across Asia.
- Curious about endurance sports.
- Community guy.
- Love being part of the open-source ecosystem.
- Have been using GNU/Linux since childhood.
- Occasionally act like a boomer — and honestly, enjoy it.
Some Of My Truths
- Simple is good.
- Minimal documentation is the best.
- Most meetings are unnecessary.
- You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Most people are other people.
- Only you can be your liberator!
- It's much easier to work on things that are exciting to you.
- Be nice! Or at least don't be a jerk.
- Many tech companies are overstaffed.
- Meetups and conferences are generally a waste of time.
- Forgive people.
- Be decisive.
My Work
- Building data pipelines that don't break at 3 AM.
- Training LLMs that actually understand the difference between correlation and causation.
- Creating AI agents that do useful work instead of just generating impressive demos.
- Building systems where humans and AI collaborate instead of competing.
- Maintaining a healthy skepticism about technology that promises to "revolutionize everything."
What I'm Learning Now
- How to build community around technical projects.
- How different cultures approach problem-solving.
- Organizational psychology principles.
- Photography techniques that tell better stories.
- The art of doing more with less code.