Utku Bakır
Founder at Nextdio
Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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RockstarUtku Bakır is a founder and product-minded software engineer with three years of hands-on experience building cross-platform React and Rust-powered applications. He has architected and shipped 8+ production React Native apps and a casual game that together reached over 10,000 users, and led a 12-person team to bring new products from research to launch at Spacedrive. On open source, he contributed front-end improvements to Spacedrive’s cross-platform file explorer, refactoring UI components and replacing inefficient implementations to improve performance and structure. His background spans multiple startups—social, e-commerce, and trading—giving him practical experience in product-market fit, growth challenges, and resilient iteration. Based in Turkey, he combines entrepreneurial grit with a focus on shipping polished user experiences across mobile and desktop ecosystems.
3 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
interface-design9
user-interface9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 628 reviews, 73 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Utku's contributions focused on enhancing the user interface of the Spacedrive application. They replaced the quadratic counter implementation with a new counter implementation within the Overview screen, modifying the associated React component. Additionally, the user introduced and implemented various components, and refactored existing elements within the packages/interface directory to improve its overall structure. Furthermore, they introduced and implemented various components and fixed some bugs.
virtual-distributed-filesystemrustlinuxfile-explorerdistributed-systems
utkubakir/create-t3-turbo
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Clean and simple starter repo using the T3 Stack along with Expo React Native
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 months
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