Mehmet Duran
AI Tech Lead at Kanexa
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMehmet Duran is an AI Tech Lead and seasoned engineering leader based in London with two decades of experience building large-scale products and guiding teams from startup to enterprise. He has served as CTO twice and currently leads AI initiatives at Kanexa while running Stack Smasher as a long-term software consultancy for startups and mid-size teams. Mehmet combines hands-on skills across front-end, data visualization, computer vision and AI with strong service design, architecture and accessibility expertise earned at government and media organisations. He has repeatedly scaled teams and delivery practices—growing development squads, establishing pipelines and championing accessibility and standards across organisations. Comfortable translating business needs to technical strategy, he also has a track record of pitching, securing funding and delivering client-facing AI solutions in real estate and other sectors. Colleagues know him for turning user research into clear product visions and for mentoring engineers to ship pragmatic, production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
F.M.V. Nişantaşı Özel Işık Lisesi, IstanbulBSc, Computer Science and Engineering, BSc, Computer Science and Engineering at Işık Üniversitesi
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (63)
twitter-bootstrap10
jquery10
finder10
tooltip10
accessibility9
rails9
cpd9
react8
deprecated8
ruby8
javascript7
displays7
requirejs7
publisher7
html7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cfq/coffee-ratio
Aug 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
cfq/cfq.github.io
Jul 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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