Summary
Cihat Imamoglu is a hands-on engineering leader and founder with 13 years of experience building products and teams across startups and large companies, including Google, Palantir, and as the first hire at Layer. Currently CEO of a stealth startup and an active angel investor, he combines product, engineering, hiring, and go-to-market experience to scale high-impact ventures. He has shipped core platform work (Chrome for Android, WebView, and enterprise data platforms) and led engineering teams at fast-growing marketplaces and ML infrastructure startups. Known for recruiting as a superpower, he routinely helps founders beyond capital—especially on hiring, culture, and technical strategy. Fluent in both early-stage, hands-on roles and operational leadership, he thrives where product, engineering, and people intersect. An unusual thread through his career is deep involvement at every company stage, from intern projects at Google to founding and advising pre-seed winners in biotech and ML.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utrecht University
Robert College
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University