Civan Özseyhan
CEO & Co-Founder at Refine
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCivan Özseyhan is a founder and technology CEO with seven years of entrepreneurial leadership and over a decade of product and R&D management experience. As CEO and Co-founder of refine.dev, based in San Francisco, he blends developer-first product strategy with hands-on engineering and open-source sensibilities. He previously founded and led multiple companies across Turkey and Europe, scaling teams from R&D to commercial delivery and serving as CTO and partner at earlier ventures. His background in management information systems and economics from Boğaziçi University, plus recent Y Combinator affiliation, reflect a mix of technical rigor and startup scaling know-how. Civan’s career shows a pattern of building developer tooling and service businesses that bridge engineering and product, often from the ground up. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who moves quickly from prototype to usable platform while maintaining a developer-centric perspective.
7 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinatorİstanbul Erkek LisesiMS, Management Information Systems, MS, Management Information Systems at Boğaziçi University
English, German, Turkish
Github Skills (34)
javascript10
react-hooks10
admin10
low-code10
typescript10
nextjs10
internal-tools10
nestjs10
react-framework10
graphql10
developer-tools10
react10
crud10
react-native-picker9
expressjs7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ebias/puul-print-server
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Puul.tv Print Server for thermal printers.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
octoprintthermalthermal-printers3d-printerserver
refinedev/refine
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
A React Framework for building internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
Contributions:1 review, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
react-frameworkreacttypescriptadminadmin-ui
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