Fatih Akın is a Developer Advocate at Automattic focused on improving the developer experience across the WordPress ecosystem, bringing 13 years of full-stack and developer-relations experience to projects that power a large portion of the open web. He blends hands-on engineering—building tooling like Omelette (a template-based CLI autocompletion tool) and contributing to GraphQL and Vue utilities—with developer relations, content creation, and public speaking. Previously he led developer relations at Teknasyon and built feature-rich retail and hospitality systems using Vue/Nuxt, Node.js, GraphQL and Ruby on Rails. Fatih’s work spans front-end UX polish and backend integrations, and he’s known for pragmatic refactors and shipping reusable components and loaders for Vue apps. An active open-source contributor and GitHub Star, he also experiments with prompt-driven interfaces (prompts.chat) and LLM prompt curation, showing a curiosity for emergent developer workflows. Based in Istanbul, he pairs deep technical breadth with community leadership to help developers build more efficiently on the open web.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Technologies and Programming, Associate's degree, Computer Technologies and Programming at Sakarya University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General at Istanbul University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Business Administration and Management, General at Anadolu University
This repo includes ChatGPT prompt curation to use ChatGPT and other LLM tools better.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:26 reviews, 190 commits, 273 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Fatih primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project by modifying the layout and functionality of the webpage. Their work involved creating, updating, and modifying the HTML structure, specifically focusing on the `default.html` layout file. They implemented features like a copy button for prompts, dark mode toggle, and the display of the GitHub star count. The user also integrated advertisements, and added platform selectors.
Complex Loader and Progress Management for Vue/Vuex and Nuxt Applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:13 releases, 1 review, 149 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fatih's primary contributions revolve around implementing and integrating UI components within the Vue.js framework for the `vue-wait` repository. They initiated the project by creating the initial version with core styling and a HTML file for basic loading component. The user added new UI components, including spinner variants and transitioned the use of an existing component name. Overall, their work focuses on building reusable and customizable loading indicators for Vue applications.
loadersnuxtprogress-barvuenuxt-module
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