// umutcan erkut — istanbul
Software Engineer / AI Systems / Backend / Game Dev
// 01 — experience
Co-Founder & CTO → Founder Engineer
Joined Promake as a co-founder and served as CTO, laying the technical foundation from the ground up — including AI systems and backend architecture. "Talk to AI. Build a real website." As the company scaled and a new CTO came on board, transitioned into a Founder Engineer role — staying close to the product, supporting backend and frontend engineering at the core level.
Founder
Built and shipped multiple products across enterprise software, public sector, and immersive tech.
Founder
Built games and interactive systems at the intersection of gaming infrastructure and blockchain.
Independent
Delivered web, mobile, and custom software projects for various clients across industries.
Security
Conducted penetration tests for organizations, identified and remediated vulnerabilities across web, mobile, and network surfaces — covering both offensive and defensive security.
// 02 — expertise
01
LLM integration, autonomous agents, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering
02
Cross-platform apps with React Native
03
Scalable APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures
04
AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD
05
React, Node.js, Laravel — when the product demands it
06
Founding CTO experience — team building, architecture decisions, 0-to-1 delivery
// 03 — technologies