Barın Özmen
CTO at Kahuna
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolBarın Özmen is a CTO and full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web platforms and music-tech products from Istanbul. A Boğaziçi University computer engineering graduate, he blends backend expertise in Java, Kotlin and Python with frontend skill in React and Angular, and has led projects on AWS, Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL. As CTO of Kahuna he applies engineering to the music industry—overseeing a 10,000+ track catalog, Merlin Network integration and TÜBİTAK-backed R&D on AI-driven music data and UGC monetization. Known for starting and shipping products end-to-end, he pairs hands-on development with strategic partnerships (LyricFind, major production houses) to create new revenue channels for artists. Outside work he produces and plays music, bringing a creator’s perspective to product and data decisions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish
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Github contributions (5)
Kahuna-Music/kahuna-base-react-components
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 reviews, 28 PRs, 65 pushes in 1 year
ozmenbrn/university_projects
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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