HEAD OF AI · CTO · CEO · CO-FOUNDER
Building the future
with data & AI
Engineer, executive, and entrepreneur with 25+ years of international experience building data-driven products and scaling technology companies across Hong Kong, the UAE, and Turkey. Co-founder of Zingat.com and Reidin.com.
// AI EXPERTISE
AI Strategy & Transformation
Helping organizations move beyond AI pilots to real scale. The model is the easy 20% — the hard 80% is redesigning workflows and building organizational courage.
Automated Valuation Models
Pioneered AI-powered property valuation engines at Zingat and Reidin — industry-first automated home valuation systems for emerging markets.
AI Recommender Engines
Built intelligent recommendation systems that match properties to users based on behavioral data, preferences, and market analytics.
AI Image Processing
Developed computer vision solutions for real estate — automated photo classification, quality assessment, and virtual staging.
Big Data & Data Science
Led Big Data transformations at two companies. Created real estate price indices, market analytics platforms, and predictive models.
PropTech Innovation
25 years of building data-driven products in real estate. From price indices to AI agents, transforming how the property industry works.
Tools & Technical Depth
Publications Contributed
The model is the easy 20%.
The other 80% is organizational.
Two decades of building AI-powered products — from real estate price indices in 2006 to AI agents today. The technology keeps getting easier. The hard part remains the same: getting organizations to actually change how they work.
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// CAREER JOURNEY
25 years across
3 continents
From product engineer to AI company CEO. From Istanbul to Hong Kong to Dubai and back. A career built on data, innovation, and the courage to build what doesn't exist yet.
Independent AI Consultant
Independent Practice — Istanbul, Turkey
Advising companies on their AI journey — from strategy and roadmap to hands-on implementation — drawing on 25+ years of building data & AI products. Helping organizations move beyond pilots and turn AI capability into real operational change.
CEO / COO / CTO & Co-Founder
Zingat.com — Istanbul, Turkey
Co-founded Turkey's leading real estate platform. Led as CTO, then COO, then CEO through rapid growth, acquisition by PropertyFinder, and merger with HepsiEmlak. Built AI-powered valuation engines, recommender systems, and image processing solutions from scratch.
Co-Founder & CTO
Reidin.com — Dubai, UAE
Built the first real estate information company focused on emerging markets. Designed the entire technology platform from scratch. Created property price indices, automated valuations, and pioneered data science in real estate across MENA and Asia.
Senior Technology Project Manager
CEICData — Hong Kong, China / Santiago, Chile
Managed the technological merger and acquisition of the company, redeveloping flagship product CDM with modern technologies and deploying it across 20 countries. Led a 25-person team across three continents.
Technology Manager
ISI Emerging Markets / CEICData — Istanbul, Turkey
Advanced from product engineer to Technology Manager, overseeing large-scale data projects across Turkey, Egypt and South Africa — collation, processing, security and visualization of complex multi-source data pipelines.
// EDUCATION
Educational background
A lifelong learner — from computer engineering and electrical engineering to philology and Chinese language, still adding new degrees today.
Chinese Language and Literature
Istanbul University — Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Spanish Philology
Istanbul University — Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Computer Engineering
Istanbul Technical University — Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Computer Programming
Boğaziçi University — Associate of Science (A.S.)
Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians
Istanbul Technical University
// BEYOND WORK
Where human creativity
meets AI
The same curiosity that drives my work in AI shows up off the clock too. I play the ney — the traditional Turkish reed flute — and spend my free time composing and producing AI-assisted music under the name Etinika: Turkish rock compositions, and songs built from poetry, where literature and music meet at the same stop.
Ney Player
Self-taught amateur musician on the ney, the centuries-old Turkish reed flute at the heart of Sufi and classical music.
AI-Assisted Composition
Writing and producing original songs with AI tools as creative collaborators — same instinct as the day job, pointed purely at the joy of making something.
Etinika on YouTube
90+ videos released — Turkish rock compositions and poetry set to music, for anyone who wants to hear the other side of the work.
Also Into
// LANGUAGES
Polyglot
Strong interest in languages and etymology. Communication is the foundation of international business.
// MENTORSHIP & ADVISORY
Giving Back
Mentoring the next generation of tech entrepreneurs and evaluating innovation projects for national funding.
İTÜ ÇEKİRDEK — Startup Mentor
Voluntary mentor at Istanbul Technical University's incubation center since 2019, supporting startups in data, AI, and tech commercialization.
TÜBİTAK — Project Evaluator
Evaluating and advising national Data & AI R&D and technology grant programs for Turkey's government-backed research council since 2019.
// LATEST ON X
Recent thoughts
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// GET IN TOUCH
Let's build the future
with data & AI
Open to advisory roles, AI strategy consulting, and mentorship opportunities. Let's talk about how AI can transform your organization — beyond the pilot.