Founder and CEO of GurubaseAnkara and San Francisco
For ten years I have turned research into production systems, from computer vision to open-source infrastructure to trustworthy AI. Gurubase1 turns a company’s documents and tools into AI agents that cite every answer, attach a trust score, and decline when the evidence is thin, and it runs fully air-gapped for regulated industries2. Before that I co-founded Ddosify, later Anteon, whose open-source performance tools passed one million Docker pulls3 and 8,500 GitHub stars4.
An AI agent platform for company knowledge. Agents answer from sources such as Confluence, Jira, Zendesk and Google Drive, show the passages they used, score their own confidence and refuse when the context is weak. They can also call APIs and run actions. Customers choose managed cloud in the EU or Türkiye, their own cloud, or a fully air-gapped install with self-hosted models2.
Masks personal data in Turkish text before it reaches a language model, covering 26 categories including the special categories of KVKK, Türkiye’s data protection law. It runs on servers in Istanbul as an API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway or an MCP server. The masking model was fine-tuned for Turkish18.
Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing. It began as Ddosify, a load-testing engine written in Go, and grew into a platform that uses eBPF to map traffic between services without code changes. It gathered 2,443 GitHub stars in its first month20, and I am its largest contributor by commits21.
An eBPF agent that watches service-to-service traffic inside Kubernetes clusters without sidecars, code changes or restarts. It has 712 GitHub stars15 and is listed in the eBPF Foundation’s application landscape27.
Seal of Excellence, European Commission
Awarded to the Gurubase proposal in the EIC Pre-Accelerator programme.
Finalist, BAŞLAT LLM Impact Programme28
Gurubase was one of nine finalists among 19 startups in the programme run by Meta, the Türkiye AI Initiative and Hello Tomorrow.
O‑1A visa, United States
Petition filed by Ddosify Inc.; approved by USCIS on 15 November 2024.
20th among the new developer tools of 2022, StackShare22
Ddosify ranked in a list that also included ChatGPT and Astro.
First place, OBSS ITalent Roadshow
Algorithm and Java programming competition held at Hacettepe University.
On Jev, a model Gurubase uses to score retrieved passages: “It cut the processing time from 2–3 seconds to about 200 milliseconds.”
See also: Türkiye Turizm, Nirvana Haber, Travel Türk Haber
Norwegian developer news quoting me as Ddosify’s CTO on Docker Build Cloud cutting our build from about 37 to 5 minutes.
Ddosify’s investment from 500 Emerging Europe; names the founders.
The same investment, with the founding story and download numbers.
See also: StartupCentrum
The lead investor’s note on why they backed Ddosify.
English-language report of the same round.
Anadolu Agency on the METU Yeni Fikirler Yeni İşler final, where Ddosify won the KoçSistem Special Award and shared the Elginkan Foundation Grand Prize.
See also: Aydınlık, Yeni Mesaj, Beyaz Gazete
Ddosify among the winners of the TÜBİTAK BiGG3 entrepreneurship call.
See also: ODTÜ Teknokent
Review of Anteon.
GitBook adds a Gurubase integration.
Insider’s engineers on choosing Ddosify for shift-left performance testing.
Hands-on review of Ddosify by a Spanish-language DevOps channel.
Viktor Farcic explains performance testing using Ddosify for every example.
Ddosify opens a list of notable open-source Go projects.
Red Hat architecture that orchestrates Kubernetes workloads with Ddosify’s latency data.
Docker announces the Ddosify extension in Docker Desktop.
Ddosify featured weeks after its open-source launch.
Why masking personal data in Turkish is hard, and how we benchmarked Siper against other systems.
Where AI hallucinations come from in company settings and the controls that reduce them.
Co-written with Docker on building a no-code load-testing platform as a Docker extension.
Co-written with Red Hat on measuring 5G network latency with Ddosify.
See also: Red Hat author page, Steinwurf republication
Founder and CEO, Gurubase · Ddosify Inc.
Product, engineering and sales for Gurubase and Siper.
Co-founder and CTO, Anteon, formerly Ddosify
Led the engineering team and the move from load testing to eBPF-based Kubernetes monitoring.
AI Team Lead, previously Data Scientist, DataBoss Security & Analytics
Led a computer vision team of four building real-time, distributed object detection.
Software Specialist, DevOps, Innova
Workforce management system for Türk Telekom; CI/CD and test automation.
Machine Learning Intern, HAVELSAN
Licence plate recognition and car model prediction with deep learning.
Software Engineer, part-time, Places of Interest
Beacon-based indoor navigation for the Zeugma Mosaic Museum.
MSc, Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University
Thesis on prior-knowledge guided weakly supervised object detection and semantic segmentation16, advised by Assoc. Prof. R. Gökberk Cinbiş. CGPA 3.71.
BSc, Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University
Honour student.