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-> Goodreads
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-> Spotify
At Narkoz, I work as a partner, owning the technical side end-to-end: architecture decisions, backend development, integrations, data workflows, infrastructure, reliability, and troubleshooting. I enjoy being the person teams rely on when things are complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes — the one who sees the whole system and brings strong due diligence to the details. I care about fundamentals: clean architecture, observability, security, and making systems stable and easy to operate in the real world.
At Narkoz, I work as a partner, owning the technical side end-to-end: architecture decisions, backend development, integrations, data workflows, infrastructure, reliability, and troubleshooting. I enjoy being the person teams rely on when things are complex, ambiguous, or high-stakes — the one who sees the whole system and brings strong due diligence to the details. I care about fundamentals: clean architecture, observability, security, and making systems stable and easy to operate in the real world.
My day-to-day usually lives where things get serious: large datasets, deduplication and data quality, messaging/queue-based flows, compliance-aware communication processes (e.g., consent/permission logic), and infrastructure details like certificates, DNS, and server-side troubleshooting. I’m drawn to work that requires both imagination and engineering discipline — building solutions people can genuinely use and trust, not just prototypes that look good on paper.
Alongside tech, Pasaj Optik is a different kind of school for me: real customers, real operations, real constraints. Bringing a technology mindset into a long-running retail business has taught me how to build systems people actually adopt — and trust. I work closely with my father, and our focus has always been trust, quality, and fashion-forward eyewear. Our story goes back to 1967, and part of my mission is to modernize the business without losing what made it worth trusting in the first place.
Art is still an important part of my life. I’ve been playing piano for 17 years, and I previously sang as a bass vocalist with the Boğaziçi Jazz Choir. While I’m not actively involved today, the discipline of performance and the culture of creating together still shape how I work.
Core interests: information & network security, software architecture, modern web/mobile applications, and data-driven systems.
I believe that computers or information technologies in general will improve the world and advance rapidly in the future. I have always wanted computers to take part in big and important parts of my life, and I follow my goals in the way that my dreams have drawn to make it that way.
Ari