- Born and raised in Kayseri, in central Turkey.
- Went to high school in Istanbul, at Istanbul Erkek Lisesi.
- Studied computer science at Boğaziçi University, also in Istanbul.
- Heard about Bitcoin, then Ethereum, near the end of my bachelor's. Traded a bit first, then wanted to know how it works. My final project was a voting system on Ethereum, in the early days of Solidity.
- Moved to Munich for a master's in Informatics at the Technical University of Munich. Took the blockchain course there, and later taught it as a teaching assistant.
- Worked part-time at the Max Planck Society on bloxberg, an Ethereum chain run by research institutes. My first time running EVM nodes.
- Wrote my thesis on peer review verification with verifiable credentials and zero-knowledge proofs.
- In September 2021, joined the Ethereum Foundation as the only developer on Sourcify. Moved to Berlin.
- Marco joined in 2022, and Manuel in 2024. We are three since then.
- Helped with Devconnect Istanbul in 2023, and wrote a food guide for it. Two years later, another one for Berlin Blockchain Week.
- In 2025, Sourcify left the Ethereum Foundation with the Solidity team and others, to form the Argot Collective.
- In 2026, moved back to Istanbul. Sourcify became a founding member of the Clear Signing Working Group. Spoke about it at Devcon 8: Goodbye YOLO Signing.
- Outside work, I cook, run, and enjoy snowboarding. Coming to Istanbul? Ask me where to eat.