← Back to contact Design CV
Zoom 100 percent

Akif Yaldır

Founding Product Engineer

AI-native product engineering · agentic systems · web, backend, iOS & infrastructure

+90 542 366 11 08 · Remote

Product-minded engineer building digital products and writing code since 2008. Today focused on production AI systems across web, backend, data, infrastructure and iOS.

Strongest in 0→1 teams: turning ambiguous customer problems into working systems, owning architecture and UX, and moving from prototype to production.

Experience

VisaEngine
2026 - present
Founding Engineer · AI immigration workspace
Next.js · React · TypeScript · Vercel AI SDK · Supabase/Postgres · Docker · AWS ECS
  • Built and operate the product end to end across Next.js/React, backend APIs, Postgres and AWS - from case analysis and document processing through production release.
  • Built durable document workflows and a multi-tenant data layer with 39 tables, 97 migrations and 200+ RLS policies.
  • Architected 18 specialized LLM agents using tool calling, streaming and Zod-validated structured output.
  • Implemented hybrid retrieval + citation guard; offline evals reached 100% citation validity and 90% classification accuracy.
Agenlead
2025 - 2026
Founding Engineer · Voice AI
React · Supabase/Postgres · SwiftUI · n8n · AWS ECS/RDS · Twilio · ElevenLabs
  • Built a production voice-AI platform across web, backend, telephony, workflow automation and a native iOS client.
  • Designed the Postgres backend across 80 migrations and 26 edge functions covering billing, lead ingestion, Calendar OAuth, GDPR deletion and push.
  • Integrated ElevenLabs over Twilio with post-call analysis at about $0.002 per call; shipped SwiftUI and 14 production n8n workflows on AWS.
PatternAI
2022 - 2024
Product Engineer / GenAI · Remote
Sole product designer alongside a 5–6 person engineering team
  • Owned core UX and functional decisions for an enterprise generative-AI product, contributing to roadmap and product direction beyond a traditional design role.
  • Designed chat-based querying of structured data, AI-assisted visualizations and role-adaptive layouts in 2022, before ChatGPT established common GenAI interaction patterns.
  • Leadership reported growth from roughly 1–5 to 20–40 enterprise customers during the period, with the redesigned experience contributing to adoption and shorter sales cycles.
Outdoorsy
2019 - 2020
Product Designer · Mobile & Monetization · Remote
Peer-to-peer RV marketplace
  • Redesigned booking and embedded self-service monetization around insurance, driver options and ancillary services; leadership reported about 30% revenue contribution and about 20% lower support dependency from the work.
  • Created the first unified mobile design system and simplified high-value purchasing decisions through behavioral analysis, experimentation and iterative product design.
Botanalytics
2016 - 2017
Founding Product Designer & Engineer
4th employee · conversational analytics / NLP
  • Sole designer in a 4–5 person team; shaped product direction, onboarding, frontend prototypes and enterprise positioning for an early conversational-AI platform.
  • Designed conversation-flow maps and live in-conversation intervention patterns; adopted by teams at Coca-Cola, AstraZeneca, eBay, Philips, Rakuten and Comcast.

Selected Product & Startup Experience

Rakam.io
2018 - 2019
Founding Designer / Product · Data analytics
3rd team member · later acquired by LiveRamp
  • Led a full redesign from an engineering-first analytics interface to self-service workflows usable by non-technical customers, guided by customer feedback and product analytics.
  • The redesigned product was used in customer demos and acquisition diligence; Rakam was acquired by LiveRamp in 2021.
Scotty
2017 - 2018
Advisor & Founding Designer · Urban mobility
4th employee · later acquired by Boyner Group
  • Defined map-based booking and real-time product patterns for a new motorcycle ride-sharing category, including low-bandwidth and time-sensitive user flows.
  • Remained sole designer as the company scaled from a founding team to about 80–100 people; also contributed to hiring, fundraising materials and partnership work.
WPmanya
2014 - 2015
Founder · Acquired
  • Built and shipped a WordPress themes marketplace, led a six-person team and sold the company.
AppSamurai
2018 - 2019
Product & Interaction Designer (CX) · AdTech
  • Designed end-to-end flows for a fraud-detection system covering complex invalid-traffic cases such as IP injection; also established a scalable design system.
Clearsettle
2015 - 2016
Product Designer · Fintech
  • Designed settlement and financial-product workflows for a data-heavy fintech environment.
Independent
2008 - present
Product Engineer & Designer · 30+ engagements
Mindcloud
Florida · Agentic AI
Finch Network
San Francisco · B2C campaign / AdTech
Chess Duello
Istanbul · Game
Istanbul.com
Europe · Travel
Dome
San Francisco · AI
Cohart
San Francisco · Art marketplace
Miracle
Europe · Crypto
DeFiTuna
Europe · Crypto
Sparkler
San Francisco · Note-taking
Plectica
San Francisco · YC
Youtility
London · Fintech
FalconAI
San Francisco · Fashion / esports · YC
Midtown Doornail
San Francisco · AI · YC
MobileAction
San Francisco · SaaS / analytics
Successly
San Francisco · SaaS / content / extension
Kommunity.co
Istanbul · Events · Co-founder
TrendWP
Co-founder · Exit