Engineer · Builder · CTO

Software I design, ship, and maintain

Self-taught developer alongside a manufacturing & mechatronics career — building production web apps, mobile products, CMS platforms, and automation on lean teams.

About

I am a professor of mechatronics and manufacturing who writes production software — not demos. When budgets were tight, I became the technical co-founder: PHP backends, React Native apps, custom CMS tools, email infrastructure, and ML features shipped to real users.

Projects span funded start-ups (Relate, Midrise), client platforms (Yakın İlişkiler), personal products (Fantasy F1.5, benioyla, yesno.guru), and this academic portal with dashboards, queues, and bilingual content.

I learn quickly at the intersection of mathematics, programming, and engineering — and I enjoy owning a problem from database schema to deployed UI.

Skills

Stacks I use regularly in shipped work — not a wish list.

Languages & runtimes

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • SQL
  • React Native
  • Shell / cron automation

Backend & data

  • MySQL / PDO
  • REST-style PHP APIs
  • Session auth
  • Background email queues
  • File uploads & CMS patterns

Products & interfaces

  • Responsive web apps
  • Mobile apps (React Native)
  • Admin dashboards
  • Bilingual (EN/TR) sites
  • Accessible forms & UX

Applied ML & integration

  • TÜBİTAK-funded ML pipelines
  • Personalization & NLP prototypes
  • Data-driven product features
  • Rapid prototyping with domain experts

Selected projects

Products and platforms built or led technically, with status noted where relevant.

Live

dulutan.com

Personal academic site with course dashboards, assignment submissions, announcements, ticketing, scheduled email queues, and bilingual public pages — designed and built end-to-end.

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Dashboard
  • i18n
Live

Fantasy F1.5 (ff1dot5.com)

A fantasy Formula 1 game exploring full-stack product design, scoring logic, and player workflows outside the lab.

  • Full stack
  • Game logic
  • UX
Live

Relate — self-therapy platform

CEO/CTO of a TÜBİTAK 1512 & 1507 funded start-up: mobile app, CMS rewrite, ML personalization, and production operations on a lean budget.

  • React Native
  • PHP
  • ML
  • Startup
MVP

Midrise

Mental and physical well-being app for menopausal and perimenopausal users — MVP live (March 2026), investor conversations ongoing.

  • Mobile
  • Health tech
  • Product
Live

Yakın İlişkiler — digital platform

CTO role: public website, mailing system, and a custom CMS still in daily use for non–social-media digital content.

  • CMS
  • Email
  • Web
Live

Chess parser & tournament bot

Utilities that parse chess data and automate enrollment for selected tournament workflows.

  • Parsing
  • Automation
  • Bots
In progress

benioyla.com

Rating-based directory across categories — users rate and comment; visitors browse aggregated opinions.

  • Ratings
  • Community
  • PHP
In progress

yesno.guru

Exploring the many flavors of yes/no questions — structured answers for curious readers.

  • Q&A
  • Content
  • Web

Software journey

How coding grew alongside teaching and research — independent of the academic CV timeline.

  1. 2019

    TÜBİTAK 1512 — Relate founded

    BIGG grant for an ML-driven self-therapy app; began hands-on PHP and React Native as CEO/CTO.

  2. 2020–23

    Relate production & 1507 R&D

    Live app (2021), CMS rewrite, TÜBİTAK 1507 personalization work; parallel CTO work at Yakın İlişkiler.

  3. 2024

    ff1dot5.com shipped

    Fantasy F1 product as a deliberate full-stack learning exercise.

  4. 2025–26

    Portfolio & health products

    dulutan.com relaunch, Midrise MVP, benioyla & yesno.guru in active development.

Collaborate

Interested in software collaboration, a technical advisory role, or engineering consulting? Reach out — I read every message.