Oguzhan Yayla is a CTO and systems-minded AI builder with over a decade of experience designing large-scale data and agent-based AI systems across six countries. He co-founded Lucidminds AI, growing it from a responsible-AI consulting practice into an R&D collective and venture studio that turned simulations and incentive mechanisms into market-ready platforms for regenerative economies and privacy-preserving data markets. His hands-on background spans production infrastructure, distributed architectures, and incentive/coordination protocol design, shipping products used by thousands while maintaining rapid iteration capacity. Recent roles include applied AI consultancy for Bertelsmann—where he built a firm-specific agent ecosystem for brand strategy—and his current CTO role at Curve Labs in Berlin. Oguzhan combines a Deutschian belief in explanative rigor with a practical taste for building arenas where ideas collide, making him effective at problems that sit at the edge of current knowledge. He pairs venture craft with technical depth, often mapping economic and ecological feedback loops before committing to engineering choices.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Istanbul Bilgi University
Blockchain implementation of the smart commons on Solidity, ETH
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