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I build infrastructure for AI agents. MarkdownLM keeps coding agents inside a team's rules, with 300+ active users. Cratera runs untrusted code in microVM sandboxes.

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Selected work

  1. MarkdownLM

    Where a team's engineering rules live, checked by every AI coding agent before code reaches review.

    300+ active users. Worked with 8 team leads.

  2. Lunary

    Open-source Rust parser for Nasdaq TotalView-ITCH 5.0.

    Full decode at 93.9M messages per second on one thread and 499.7M on 8 vCPUs.

  3. Cratera

    Self-hosted Rust engine that runs untrusted code in Firecracker microVMs.

    30 toolchains. About 5 ms snapshot restores.

  4. Cratery

    Free Rust quiz site that runs on Cratera.

    680+ questions, 19K+ answers, 240+ registered users.

  5. Mikasa

    Discord bot built at 16. Verified by Discord, with 15,000 weekly users.

    Verified by Discord. 15,000 weekly users.

Experience

Koç University

Jul 2026 to present

Research Intern, remote. Cryptography, Security and Privacy Research Group

Building the core of a password security system in Rust, used by both the Android and iOS apps, and tested to match the existing web version exactly.

Crypticorn

Apr 2025 to Feb 2026

Software Engineer, remote, part-time

Made the company's APIs faster and safer, cutting response times by a quarter and fixing a security hole. Built tools that took new developer onboarding from 2 days to 4 hours, and a notification system that sends over a million messages a month.

Heybe-AI

Apr 2025 to Jul 2025

Software Engineer, remote, part-time

Automated the publishing workflow, cutting manual work by 80%. Fixed the paid Chrome extension so subscriptions and payments work reliably.

Education

Yaşar University

B.Sc. Management Information Systems, 2024 to 2028. GPA 3.45/4.00, full tuition merit scholarship.

Skills

Rust, Python, TypeScript, SQL. PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, GCP, Linux.

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