Bulent Tastan
Founder at Blockchain Game Alliance
Earth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBulent Tastan is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building products that bridge complex backend systems and user-facing applications. He currently leads Umi, a blockchain infrastructure startup unifying EVM and Move under a single execution layer to make cross-ecosystem deployment seamless. His background spans senior roles at Meta and Amazon, multiple founder/CTO ventures, and a Berkeley SkyDeck fellowship, combining large-scale engineering practices with early-stage product hustle. Comfortable across full stacks and distributed systems, he has repeatedly turned integration challenges into product differentiators—most recently removing the need to rewrite contracts or rely on fragile bridges. Based in Texas, he blends academic depth (PhD work in computer science) with pragmatic startup execution.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Berkeley SkyDeck Fall'19, Berkeley SkyDeck Fall'19 at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Boğaziçi UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of Central Florida
English, Turkish, Japanese
Github Skills (29)
selectable10
render9
popover8
javascript7
react7
wallet6
bitcoin5
lightning5
digest3
cross-platform3
lightning-network3
facebook2
chain2
polygon2
nodejs2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MovedNetwork/op-move
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Move execution layer
Contributions:274 reviews, 47 PRs, 59 pushes in 5 months
bulenttastan/react-native-list-popover
Apr 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 10 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 9 months
renderreactjavascriptpopoverselectable
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