Necmettin Karakaya
Chief Technology Officer at craftgen
Oregon, Singapore
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Top SchoolNecmettin Karakaya is a CTO and serial founder with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, test-first full-stack and AI-native systems. He designs and ships production-grade serverless and microservice architectures (AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, Docker) while leading teams through rapid growth and operational complexity. His recent work focuses on turning fragmented knowledge into structured, retrievable context for AI workflows—running CTO roles and founding AI startups that bridge narrative memory, retrieval, and execution. Equally comfortable in TypeScript/Node.js, Go, and Java stacks, he emphasizes compact, isolated code and ubiquitous testing as the backbone of reliable systems. He has scaled consumer AI products (300→80K paying users) and built platforms for no-code AI workflows and digital autobiography, revealing a blend of product intuition and deep technical craft. Based between Oregon and Singapore, he pairs startup grit with enterprise experience delivering data-intensive systems for clients like 3M, Koch, and Arizona State University.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), 4, Bachelor of Science (BS), 4 at Antalya lisesiAssociate’s Degree, Chinese Language and Literature, Associate’s Degree, Chinese Language and Literature at Shanghai UniversityNon-degree, Business Chinese, Non-degree, Business Chinese at South China University of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 2015
Chinese, English, Turkish, Russian
Stackoverflow
1,197reputation
220kreached
12answers
3questions
jestjs
top-5%
create-react-app
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
datasets10
oas10
javascript-framework10
state-machine10
specification10
serverless10
openapi10
client-library10
body-parser10
browser10
api10
html10
html5-video10
static-site-generator10
javscript10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
SenseiRofu/kafe
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Kafe Learning Platform
Contributions:149 commits in 2 months
reactlearning-platformjavascriptexpressnodejs
Necmttn/learning
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:104 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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