Tolga Tarhan
Founder at Atomic Gravity
Irvine, California, United States
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Top SchoolTolga Tarhan is a serial founder and technology executive with 20+ years of experience turning emerging technology into revenue-generating products and businesses. He has founded and scaled multiple companies, led rapid growth and acquisitions (including building businesses that became part of a ~$350M cloud-native platform), and served as Global CTO overseeing a ~$3B ARR portfolio through an IPO. Known for moving fast from proof to production, he now runs Atomic Gravity to embed applied AI into products and workflows in weeks, not quarters. His background spans cloud-native architecture, real-time video AI (Kibsi reached $1M ARR in 100 days), serverless and IoT innovations, and hands-on DevOps contributions such as enhancements to the cloudtools/stacker CloudFormation orchestrator. Tolga combines operator discipline with a bias for momentum over perfection, focusing on shipping practical AI solutions rather than “AI theater.” Based in Irvine, CA, he pairs an MBA with deep engineering roots to bridge strategy, product, and execution.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
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Github Skills (18)
python10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
devops10
boto9
yaml9
botocore8
domain-driven-design6
encryption6
apache-flex6
netbeans6
visual-studio6
actionscript6
apache-camel6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudtools/stacker
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
An AWS CloudFormation Stack orchestrator/manager.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 19 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tolga primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `stacker` project, an AWS CloudFormation orchestrator. They introduced a file translator feature, allowing dynamic loading of file contents within CloudFormation templates. Additionally, the user upgraded dependencies, including `troposphere`, and refactored code by moving the file translator to a lookup handler. Their contributions demonstrate an understanding of infrastructure automation and cloud-native tooling.
pythonaws-cloudformationdevopscloudformation-stackorchestrator
ttarhan/pixel-audio-visualizer
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:20 releases, 14 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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