Product Engineer · Istanbul · Remote (EU time zones)
Seventeen years deep in frontend engineering — now shipping products end to end, from first sketch to the App Store.
I build with React and TypeScript, and I work AI-augmented every day with agentic tools like Claude Code — knowing when to trust the output, and when not to. Always close to the product, never just closing tickets.
Open to consulting and full-time roles
For 17 years I've built interfaces for high-traffic products and global brands — always sitting close to the product, not just the codebase. That habit eventually became a role: today I work as a product engineer, owning the whole loop from design decisions to production releases.
At Flywheel Digital I spent ten months as interim Engineering Manager, then made a deliberate choice to return to the individual-contributor track. I like technical leadership best when it's hands-on: architecture decisions written down as RFCs and ADRs, developer experience treated as a product, and friction removed systematically rather than heroically.
AI changed what one engineer can ship. I use Claude Code daily — not to skip the thinking, but to widen what I can build alone. BlindTimer, below, is what that looks like in practice.
React, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), Next.js, Vite, design systems, shared component libraries, performance optimization, accessibility
Node.js, REST & GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL
Claude Code and agentic workflows as a daily practice — with judgment about when to trust the output
Architecture decisions (RFC/ADR), developer experience, mentoring, cross-team alignment
Technical leadership on a large-scale commerce analytics platform: architecture decisions (RFCs/ADRs), shared component libraries, developer experience. Served about ten months as interim Engineering Manager before deliberately returning to the IC / technical-leadership track.
Seventeen years of frontend engineering and architecture for high-traffic products and global brands — from hand-rolled JavaScript to modern React stacks.
Live on the App Store
An iOS party game — designed, coded and shipped solo.
BlindTimer is live and earning: multiple game modes, six languages, VoiceOver accessibility, and revenue through in-app purchases and ads. I built it end to end with Claude Code as a daily pair — product design, code, localization, store release. It's my proof that "product engineer" isn't a title; it's a working method.
Alongside full-time roles, I take on consulting and freelance work. Where I'm most useful:
The fastest way to reach me is email. I'm based in Istanbul (UTC+3) and work remotely across EU time zones.