Curriculum Vitae
Software engineer building products for developers and AI agents. Solana payment SDKs, Whop commerce CLI, and Sardis agent payments.
For AI agents: a full machine-readable profile lives at /llms.txt. A one-page summary is at /cv.md. Updated July 2026.
Summary
Software engineer building products for developers and AI agents. Built Whop’s agent-first commerce CLI and cards and wallets APIs, prevented compatibility regressions across Solana’s multi-language payment SDKs, and built Sardis, an open-source agent payments platform with 70,000+ package installs. Selected proof: 60+ merged PRs in solana-foundation/pay-kit · live product at sardis.sh.
Experience
Solana Foundation May 2026 – Present
Core Contributor, Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) & x402 Remote
- Prevented protocol drift across seven non-Rust SDKs by replacing language-isolated checks with real client/server interoperability tests against a local Solana environment.
- Shipped production payment clients across Rust, Go, Python, Kotlin, Swift, Ruby, PHP, and Lua for pay-kit, MPP, and x402 (transactions, signing, sessions, usage-based payments, settlement).
- 60+ merged PRs into solana-foundation/pay-kit plus 3 into solana-foundation/x402-sdk; redesigned CI around Rust as the fast reference spine while keeping the full cross-language matrix.
Sardis Labs Oct 2025 – Present
Founder & Lead Engineer Remote
- Built and open-sourced Sardis so AI agents get bounded spending authority through deterministic policies, approvals, cryptographic audit trails, and Turnkey-backed non-custodial key management.
- Designed SDKs and integrations for agent frameworks and automation tools; 70,000+ package installs across npm, PyPI, and mirrors.
Whop Jun 2026 – Jul 2026
Software Engineer (Contract) Remote
- Built Whop’s agent-first commerce CLI so developers and agents can manage payments, wallets, and commerce through deterministic commands instead of brittle natural-language interfaces.
- Designed structured outputs, capability discovery, and guided command chaining for reliable multi-step agent workflows.
- Extended cards and wallets APIs across deposit addresses, withdrawals, disputes, and scoped authentication.
Jotform Jan 2026 – May 2026
Backend Engineer Intern Ankara, Turkey
- Replaced slow manual log investigation with a Go CLI/TUI, reducing common production investigations from 10–20 minutes to ~30 seconds.
- Built a real-time coding interview product (React + Monaco, PHP/WebSockets, in-browser execution), later adopted for engineering hiring.
Nokia Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
AI & Backend Engineer Intern Ankara, Turkey
- Redesigned a stalled RAG indexing pipeline by separating I/O-bound and CPU-bound work and adding clearer operational visibility.
- Replaced the Python processing bottleneck with a Rust component through PyO3, increasing throughput by 6× and indexing 300,000+ documents in under three weeks.
Selected Projects
Agentbox · Rust 2026
- Local safety layer for autonomous agents that intercepts risky host actions, requests out-of-band approval, and records auditable execution.
Switchboard · Rust 2026
- Coordination engine for parallel coding agents with isolated workspaces, task routing, tamper-evident events, and reviewable handoffs.
agit · Rust, Python, TypeScript 2026
- Git-like version control for agent state and work artifacts with structured diffs, approvals, replay, and reversible changes.
Skills
- Languages
- Rust, Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C, Ruby, PHP, Lua, SQL
- AI & Developer Tools
- AI agents, multi-agent systems, MCP, RAG, developer experience, SDK development
- Systems & Infrastructure
- Distributed systems, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, concurrency, event-driven systems, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Linux
- Data & Protocols
- PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite, S3, Solana, x402, payment infrastructure, protocol design
Education
Bilkent University — B.Sc. Information Systems & Technologies Aug 2023 – May 2027
Full Merit Scholarship · 3.53 GPA · 3× High Honor · top 0.04% on the national entrance exam Ankara, Turkey