Emre Sokullu
Founder at GROU.PS, Inc.
Arona, Piedmont, Turkey
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Top SchoolEmre Sokullu is a serial founder and software entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building open-source and privacy-first products, currently leading SecureBtcWallet, a cold-wallet project safeguarding over $100M in crypto assets. He has a strong track record of scaling community and platform businesses—from GROU.PS (8M monthly uniques, $30M enterprise value) to Turkey’s largest Mastodon instance, MastoTurk—and has launched trustless crypto-inheritance tooling with Miras.Global. Technically hands-on, he created Turkey’s first fine-tuned Turkish LLM and a high-safety chatbot prototype, and he’s an early angel investor in startups including Automattic and H2O.ai. Based in Arona, Piedmont, Emre blends product-led engineering with open-source stewardship and a long-standing interest in decentralized, censorship-resistant systems.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Galatasaray LisesiBoğaziçi University
English, French, Turkish, Japanese, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (177)
php-library10
social-media10
server-side10
graph10
private-network10
widgets10
php10
graphjs10
graphviz10
filemaker9
property-graph9
acl9
redisgraph9
cypher9
docblocks9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
phonetworks/pho-microkernel
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Framework, enhanced with Services (such as persistence, indexing etc.) and ACL (access-control-lists)
Contributions:8 releases, 287 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 11 months
indexingframeworklistsaccess-control-listsaccess-control
esokullu/social-server-strapi
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
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