Location: Istanbul, Turkey (remote, overlap with US East Coast mornings & EU business hours)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Go, Python/Django, AI/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini), PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS/Azure/GCP

Resume/CV: https://ustunozgur.com/Ustun_Ozgur_CV_Eng.pdf

Email: [email protected]

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Founding engineer / fractional CTO — I build AI-powered SaaS products from zero to production.

15+ years, mostly at US startups as employee #1 or early hire:

- *Runy* (2025): Head of Engineering. Built the MVP for a NYC property management startup—led a team of 6, shipped in 5 months.

- *Edge Delta* (2023-2025): Senior Engineer at this Seattle observability company. Built an AI chatbot that lets users manipulate a visual pipeline builder through natural language. Owned billing infrastructure.

- *Braid Health* (2020-2023): VP of Engineering & Principal Engineer. Integrated ML model outputs into clinician-facing radiology tools. Full-stack: React frontend, TypeScript backend, Python for ML models, cloud infrastructure.

- *Toolio* (2019-2020): Founding Engineer. Built the technical foundation for this NYC retail merchandise planning SaaS.

- *SellerCrowd* (2011-2017): CTO. Built a Django/React social network for the ad industry from scratch to 20,000+ users.

*Background:* MSc EE from Bilkent, where I did research under Prof. Erdal Arıkan (inventor of polar codes, now foundational to 5G). Conference speaker (DjangoCon Europe, Øredev).

Open to: founding engineer roles, fractional CTO engagements, or contract work on AI integration / SaaS architecture / observability systems.