Doğu Demirçivi
Founder at Optimize IT
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolDoğu Demirçivi is a founder and hands-on generalist engineer with 9 years of experience building native iOS apps and backend services, based in Istanbul. He specializes in Apple's ecosystem and reverse engineering, enjoying digging under the hood to make apps feel truly native and intuitive. His recent work includes senior iOS roles at Texts/Automattic and Beeper, where he shipped inbox-unification apps that integrated AI for summarization, generation, and transcription. He has led mobile projects for clients like Gymshark and Turkcell, created high-performance device-to-device transfer tools, and designed major app launches aligned to Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. Comfortable operating autonomously or within teams, he also runs Optimize IT to deliver client solutions and proofs-of-concept. A background in security research and running internal infrastructure (GitLab, VPN, CI) gives him a practical edge in systems thinking beyond the UI.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at Anadolu UniversityAssociate's degree Computer Programming, Associate's degree Computer Programming at İstanbul Gedik Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (93)
visualizations10
sketch10
property-wrapper10
sketch-app10
swift-package10
things10
debug10
sketch-plugin10
time-tracking9
adobe-xd9
swift9
elasticsearch9
kibana9
postman9
xcode-plugin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pixelworm/pixelworm-ios-sdk
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:52 commits, 1 branch in 1 year
Demircivi/silkroad-emulator
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:8 commits in 7 months
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