Hakan Karlidag
Technical Product Founder Independent Consultant at Prescient Haze
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHakan Karlidag is a seasoned technology and product leader based in London with nearly two decades of experience and a proven track record of turning strategic goals into scalable engineering outcomes. He combines hands-on full‑stack product delivery—most recently building an AI-powered SaaS and commercialising AI-assisted creative workflows—with large-scale transformation experience leading engineering practice and compliance remediation across thousands of services at HSBC. Comfortable at the intersection of business and tech, he builds high-performing cross-functional teams, governance frameworks, and automation-first strategies that drive measurable operational impact. He also has deep roots in interactive and game development, having shipped award-winning multimedia projects and led engineering teams since the early 2000s, which gives him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to product design. Known for blending a commercial lens with responsible innovation, he excels at moving AI experiments from prototyping to production-ready, revenue-generating products.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Systems and Control Engineering, MSc, Systems and Control Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (59)
isometric10
line-endings10
javascript9
webgl9
threejs9
pixijs9
template-strings9
canvas9
browser9
svg9
game-development9
datepicker8
3d8
tagged-template8
virtual-reality8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
axaq/traviso.js
Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
Traviso is an open source JS engine that makes it easy to build isometric applications that run in a web browser.
Contributions:3 releases, 12 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 8 months
gamebrowserwebglcanvasjavascript
axaq/traviso-website
Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 51 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
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