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Technology and product leader. Hands-on AI builder.
I lead connected-vehicle and digital-engineering platforms, build working AI systems myself, and write about getting AI from pilot to production.
About
I've spent 25 years in enterprise technology, and most of it watching the same thing happen: the technology works, and the organization can't absorb it. The difference is almost never technical.
ICT · manufacturing · automotive
I lead the Connected Products & Engineering Tribe at Ford Otosan: cross-functional squads building connected-vehicle and digital-engineering platforms. Most of the work starts with a business unit's problem and ends when the outcome can be measured.
I still build. On my own time I design and ship working systems with AI coding agents: assistants that respect a user's real permissions, MCP-based integrations, a fleet-telemetry platform.
I publish essays and free diagnostics on enterprise AI, and spend a good share of my time coaching product owners and engineers, because a capability the team can't sustain alone doesn't last.
The fleet platform, born connected.
A real-time fleet platform that reads telemetry from the vehicle's own factory connectivity: no dongle, no installer, no workshop visit. I created it and built it alone, on my own time and resources.
Know what your enterprise really uses.
Product intelligence for internal software. One snippet per product gives anonymous usage analytics, in-product feedback and executive dashboards across a whole portfolio, apps and AI-agent pilots alike.
See the numbers before you open the doors.
A feasibility report builder for cafés, restaurants and patisseries in Türkiye. It asks the right questions, then produces a 36-month profit-and-loss projection, a break-even point and an investor deck.
Honest verdicts, in the browser.
Self-assessment tools I built to go with the essays. Each gives a verdict from your weakest dimension, so a project can't charm its way past the thing it is failing.
One assistant, many systems, your own permissions.
A permissions-aware assistant across engineering systems. It answers only with what the signed-in user is allowed to see, and routes each request to a model under a cost cap.
The gateway's own architecture view.
Telecom expense management you can question.
An AI-assisted platform for telecom billing across a large, multi-division vehicle fleet: it takes in the invoices and usage records, allocates the cost, reconciles it, and answers questions in plain language.
Schematic, not a screenshot. The question shown is an illustration.
Ford Otosan
Lead the cross-functional tribe behind connected-vehicle platforms, fleet products and digital-engineering systems across passenger, commercial and heavy-duty vehicles. Coach product owners and chapter leads to own their decisions.
Ford Otosan
Built cross-domain delivery teams and shaped connected-vehicle strategy, roadmaps and technical integrations.
Ford Otosan
Reported to the Chief Digital Officer; ran company-wide digital transformation priorities and business cases across manufacturing, engineering and supply chain.
BDG Ferforje, the family business
Stepped in to run the family manufacturing business, prepared it for sale and completed the sale to a new owner.
EZTELCO
Ran technology, finance and operations for a wholesale telecom provider serving 100+ clients in 20+ countries; designed and implemented its fraud-detection algorithms.
Odine (Verscom)
Led presales, vendor relations and project delivery for telecom operator clients across EMEA, after four years managing global sales operations.
MedyaNet · Doğan Telekom · Doğan Online · BDG Ferforje
Export sales at the family business, then .NET software engineering, telecom billing team leadership and project management.
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If you're working on the same problems, I'd like to hear how it's going, particularly the parts that didn't work. Those are the useful ones.