Demi Yilmaz is a founder and product-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building games and consumer apps from Singapore. As Co-Founder of Colonist, he leads development on a strategy board-game platform that blends competitive design with player-driven systems. His track record includes launching mobile titles and multiple startups where he learned fast iteration, product-market fit lessons, and even early crypto experiments at Breakpoint Labs. Trained as a civil engineer at Middle East Technical University, he brings analytical rigor and a systems-thinking approach to software and game design. A collector of mental models, he pairs playful, user-centered products with a pragmatic, learn-by-doing founder’s mindset. He’s currently hiring and actively shaping Colonist’s next phase of growth.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Contributions:14 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
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