Umur Kontacı
Founder at Tinkerspoon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolUmur Kontacı is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack products and leading technical teams, most recently as a senior engineer on Alexa Skills Kit and Runtime at Amazon. Based in Vancouver, he now runs Tinkerspoon Studios and oversees a portfolio of private investments through Kontaci Holding, blending product-led game development with strategic business ops. He started programming at age nine and brings a unique sociology background to engineering, informing user-centered design and behavioral insights in GenAI and LLM-driven voice experiences. Known for early-stage impact roles—from first full-stack hire to large-scale platform work—he combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership across front-end, back-end, and voice/runtime systems. Colleagues describe him as entrepreneurial and curious, often threading unexpected interdisciplinary ideas into practical, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
VefaBS, Sociology, BS, Sociology at Boğaziçi University
English
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Github Skills (91)
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wordpress10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
umurkontaci/castro
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
Your own Netflix
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 years 5 months
netflix
umurkontaci/wordpress
Apr 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 10 months
wordpresspackagingwordpress-plugindocker
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