Emir Aydin
Founder & CEO at Automata
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEmir Aydin is a product-focused software leader and founder with over a decade of experience turning ideas into launched products and sustainable businesses. As Founder & CEO of Automata he grew a niche SaaS to 70k+ users and recurring revenue while earning Product Hunt recognition and a top Pocket integration spot. Emir has led AI-first product incubations at Dropbox (securing CEO funding, shipping two production products and earning patents) and built infrastructure-grade interactive video services at AWS that scaled to millions. His background spans hands-on engineering, mobile and web product leadership at Hootsuite, and early-stage technical cofounding in genomics, giving him rare fluency across product, design and engineering. Based in Vancouver, he combines entrepreneurial grit with intrapreneurial success—often recruiting and mentoring founders inside larger orgs to accelerate innovation. He favors user-centric, retention-driven strategies and consistently ships deeply practical solutions in ambiguous, high-impact domains.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at McGill University
English, Turkish, French
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Github Skills (71)
font-size10
dropdown10
popup10
tooltip10
bcrypt10
scrypt9
flexbox9
tooltips9
fomantic-ui9
semantic9
des9
hash8
authentication8
pbkdf28
ui-components8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
danchoi/kindlerb
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 42 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 1 month
ebookebook-generationperiodicalkindle
emiraydin/p2k
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:76 commits, 22 pushes, 6 comments in 15 days
ruby-on-railspocketrailsrails-applicationruby
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