Summary
Barış Kaya is a product-minded engineer and serial founder with 11 years of experience building full-stack and IoT-enabled products from prototype to production. He blends hands-on development in React, Rust, Node.js and Tauri with product leadership—shipping LLM-driven features, agentic AI systems, and real-time collaborative notebooks that use CRDTs for seamless sync. As co-founder of multiple startups and a technical product manager at companies like Thundra and Byterise, he bridges engineering and business needs to drive data-informed roadmaps and rapid prototyping. Notably, he’s led successful OSS-driven product launches and navigated post-acquisition integrations, bringing both growth and operational rigor. Based in Ankara, he pairs a Bilkent Computer Science background with a pragmatic knack for turning experimental AI and embedded systems work into user-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bilgisayar Bilimleri, Bilgisayar Bilimleri at Kingston University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Bilkent University
TED Ankara Koleji
Turkish, İngilizce, German