Gokhan Celiker
CEO Founder at Global Champions Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGokhan Celiker is a product-focused entrepreneur and AI practitioner with 12+ years building and exiting consumer tech used by millions, currently leading Global Champions Inc. as CEO and founder from San Francisco. A self-taught developer since age 12, he blends hands-on engineering instincts with formal study in Design Thinking at Stanford and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boğaziçi. He scaled and sold multiple startups—ranging from a top-voted Product Hunt social app to a CPI influencer marketplace that delivered 1.28B influencer reach—and led distributed teams of 20–40 across products and disciplines. As the youngest board member of an insurance firm, he also guided AI-driven credit insurance scoring and profitable corporate transitions. A prolific blogger attracting over 3 million pageviews a year, he pairs public thought leadership with practical product metrics and a knack for applying AI and blockchain to advertising and engagement problems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Boğaziçi University5.00 Maths Science, 5.00 Maths Science at Icel Anatolian High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Self-taughtDesign Thinking, Design Thinking at Stanford University
English, Turkish, German, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
android10
mixpanel9
ios9
ruby9
fastlane9
automation9
android-apps9
sdk8
mobile8
react-native8
chrome-extension7
css7
chrome6
objective-c6
cocoapods5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clkr/origin-dapp
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Demo DApp for our peer to peer marketplace using origin.js
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
marketplacereactdappethereumblockchain
clkr/whispering
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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