Doğan Aykaç

I build hard things, and I ship them.

I'm Doğan Aykaç — 23, from Türkiye. I started at 11, teaching myself on webmaster forums, and never stopped. Six of those twelve years have been in the industry: an internship in agricultural robotics that grew into engineering ownership, a stint on an autonomous-vehicle platform, and now four products of my own — autonomous agent fleets, end-to-end encryption, escrow payments, retail automation.

I design and build both sides. Every product on this site — the interface, the design system, the backend, the database — came from one person. That's not a boast; it's why I care about systems that hold up without a team to babysit them.

HOW I WORK
Design first, always.
Every project starts with a design system — tokens, type scale, rules about what colour is allowed to mean. Then the code follows it.
End to end, on purpose.
Mobile, web, API, database, payments, deployment. Owning the whole stack means the seams get designed instead of discovered.
Trust is a feature.
Encrypted DMs, escrow, passport data, row-level isolation. When the product handles something people can't afford to lose, security is the design.
TIMELINE
2014Started at 11Webmaster forums — HTML, hosting and a lot of breaking things.
2020Bear Flag RoboticsIntern → software engineer on autonomous agricultural machinery, remote. Two and a half years.
2022TheProEcoFull-stack development across web and mobile clients, APIs and deployment.
2024Cruise (GM), then independentThree months on the self-driving platform, then four products of my own — and co-founding Xaron.
Open to full-time rolesLooking for a team where craft and shipping both matter.
WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR

A full-time team building something technically real — agents, infrastructure, fintech, developer tools. Somewhere the bar for craft is high and shipping still matters.

DETAILS
Based in
İstanbul, Türkiye · UTC+3
Languages
Türkçe · English
Remote
Yes — remote-ready, open to relocation
Status
Open to full-time roles