Çiler Ay is a seasoned founder and product-driven technologist with 12 years of experience building AI-first companies from Istanbul, Türkiye. As co-founder of CBOT she applies conversational AI to improve customer experience and revenue across finance, e-commerce and telecom, while her earlier co-founded venture Smart Moderation deploys real-time ML to protect brands across social platforms. Her background blends strategic marketing and brand management in corporate roles with hands-on startup execution, giving her a rare fluency in customer needs, go-to-market and AI productization. Known as a tinkerer on GitHub, she pairs curiosity-driven experimentation with pragmatic product outcomes. Fluent in building systems that learn and scale, she focuses on continuous improvement of AI models and operational workflows to deliver measurable business impact.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Sekine Evren Anatolian High school
Bachelor's degree Management Engineering, Bachelor's degree Management Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
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