I was born in 1977 in Nazilli, a small town in the Turkish province of Aydın, into a family of teachers. I spent my childhood in the town’s public library, and when I was twelve my parents, both teachers, opened a bookshop. I have been surrounded by books ever since.
In 2023 I wrote Thinking Like a CTO in English, with a contribution from my colleague Hakan Erdoğan to the chapter “Defining the Role of a CTO”. Every bit of income from the book has gone into planting trees, and today they make up a small forest. The whole book is free to read here.
Alongside engineering, I have a deep curiosity about history, philosophy and geography. In 2026 I started Fatih’in Gölgesi, a novel that brings all three together. It is not finished yet; it is written in Turkish, and you can read it here for free as it grows. Readers’ interest is my biggest motivation for the chapters still to come.