Summary
Furkan Kaya is a Technical Lead and Software LLM Developer based in Istanbul with nine years of hands-on experience building software and mentoring teams. He leads AI and product development at Usight Software & AI Technologies while mentoring game developers at Frosy Game Studios, blending practical engineering with developer coaching. A top-performing scholarship student in Management Information Systems and Computer Programming, he combines strong academic grounding (3.8 GPA) with entrepreneurial experience from an incubation center and board-level work on AI for Social Good. Furkan is driven by continuous improvement—he measures success by the concrete improvements he ships—and is equally comfortable architecting LLM-driven features and guiding junior engineers. Notably, his background spans education, startups, and social-impact AI, giving him a rare mix of technical leadership and mission-oriented perspective.
9 years of coding experience
Top Student, Information Technologies, Web Development, Top Student, Information Technologies, Web Development at İMMİB Erkan Avcı Vocational and Technical High School
Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, GPA: 3.80/4.00, Full Scholarship, Top Student, Bachelor's Degree, Management Information Systems, GPA: 3.80/4.00, Full Scholarship, Top Student at Istinye University
Erasmus, Erasmus at Hochschule Koblenz (Koblenz University of Applied Sciences)
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