Co-Founder & CEO, Atlantic
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Vol. 01 · 2026
Named after a sea. Building an ocean.
noun · Turkish
In Turkish, my name is a sea. I grew up in Istanbul, a city that lives on two continents at once and never picked a side. Now I run Atlantic, a company that teaches software to fix itself. Same water. Bigger map.
Atlantic is an autonomous software factory. It reads the ticket and the code, writes the fix, tests it in a real browser and opens a pull request with the evidence attached. Engineers stay in charge of what ships.
Co-founded with Rüzgar İmren, CTO.
Backed by Galata Business Angels.
Galata Business Angels, at a $5M valuation. June 2026.
I learned strategy at a chessboard long before a boardroom. Every step since has been a calculated jump: sideways, forward, rarely where people expected the piece to land.
Top 20 at the Turkish National Chess Championship (U12). Long calculations, a ticking clock, and losing in public. Still the best training I've had.
Zaxe National 3D Design Competition, no age brackets. I designed and printed a working object and finished third nationally.
Turkey's largest technology festival. My first time building with a team against a real deadline.
Model United Nations delegate from Robert College to Koç and SEV. Negotiation, persuasion and thinking on my feet, in committee after committee.
AI-driven growth systems for B2B companies: lead generation, CRM automation and paid acquisition, all tied to revenue.
A venture-backed EdTech company. The name is Turkish for “passed pawn”, the piece nothing can stop. Fitting.
With Rüzgar İmren as CTO. We started by building a company AI OS.
Galata Business Angels backed Atlantic at a $5M valuation.
From a company AI OS to an autonomous software factory. Two months from decision to a factory opening real pull requests.
The factory opens to every engineering team. Soon.
Chess taught me to play the position three moves out. Product, hiring and fundraising get the same treatment.
Atlantic opens pull requests with the evidence attached. I hold every claim we make to the same standard.
Two months from pivot to a working factory. Momentum compounds. So does hesitation.
Automate the work, never the judgment. Every change Atlantic ships is approved by a person.
Building something, backing something, or want to build Atlantic with us? My LinkedIn inbox is open.