Founding and shipping AI products end-to-end — strategy, design, and code.
Founder of & trusted by — across AI, SaaS, fintech, mobile
I build and ship AI products end-to-end — strategy, design, and production code. A decade of shipping across AI, SaaS, fintech and mobile.
Founder of & trusted by — across AI, SaaS, fintech, mobile
Talk to customers, read the repo, walk the floor. Before I open Figma I can explain the business model back to you in one paragraph.
A small architecture diagram; two or three prototypes that disagree with each other; a written hypothesis per prototype.
Production-ready files, design systems engineers can extend, real code when it's faster. I've merged my own PRs on six products.
A week after launch I'm looking at funnels, not moodboards. Two iterations in, the thing is usually better than the spec.
What distinguishes Akif is his ability to connect user-experience decisions with measurable business outcomes. His contributions were not incremental — they were foundational to our growth.
Akif stands out even among highly experienced product designers. His work across AI interaction design represents meaningful and original contributions.
He revamped our entire UX/UI and drove high-quality design across multiple core features. Akif consistently combined speed, structured thinking and quality.
Akif joined as our founding designer and fourth employee, and remained the sole designer as we scaled to ~100 people. His ability to design systems that work in the real world is uncommon.
Very few individuals can take ownership of both product direction and execution at this level. His contributions were original and of significant importance.
What makes Akif distinctive is his ability to operate where there are no established patterns and define usable systems from first principles.
