Summary
Mustafa Akcanca is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems for startups and Silicon Valley companies. He has driven measurable impact across domains—from leading content delivery and Web3 features for a music NFT and streaming platform to improving ChatGPT conversational performance through RLHF work with OpenAI contracts. Mustafa blends cloud-native infrastructure expertise (AWS, Docker, auto-healing/scaling, Lambda) with hands-on hardware and robotics experience, having led space-robotics teams and still building UAVs in his spare time. He co-founded deep-tech ventures that raised $1.2M and produced patent-pending privacy-aware storage and long-range computer vision products, demonstrating both product and research chops. Based in Istanbul, he pairs strong cross-functional leadership and agile delivery with a curiosity-driven approach to AI, distributed systems, and embedded hardware.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Student MSc., Istanbul, Student MSc., Istanbul at 42
Master of Science - MSc, Forensic Sciences, Master of Science - MSc, Forensic Sciences at Üsküdar Üniversitesi
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Honors, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Honors at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
English, Turkish, laz