KK · Istanbul / Berlin · 41.0082° N · EST 2019
Portfolio / Vol. 04 · Edition MMXXVI
Available · Q2 — 2026

Kerem
Kahraman.

Software developer, based between
Istanbul and the open web.
[ 01 / Introduction ]
01   Engineering & product
02   AI & data systems
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( 01 ) — Introduction On practice, context and intent § 01 / 04

Sketching ideas in code.
Shipping software that treats craft and commerce as one discipline.

I work at the intersection of web engineering, applied AI, and data. My practice is built on a straightforward premise: the best digital products feel inevitable, precise in their logic, quiet in their details, and unambiguous about the problem they solve.

Over the last years I have partnered with founders, product teams and studios to design and build systems that hold up under real use. Less ornament, more consequence.

Basedİstanbul· Available worldwide
Practice since2019· 7 years · ongoing
Engagements40+· Founders · studios · teams
Current statusOpen· Q2 — 2026
( 02 ) — Context The plot thickens § 02 / 04

Code is the instrument.
Business is the score.

I think of myself less as a developer who happens to read business books, and more as an operator who writes software. Understanding how a product compounds (its unit economics, its onboarding, its story) is what separates a feature from an outcome.

That lens extends beyond the screen. Photography, travel, the discipline of editing: they are all the same exercise in deciding what to leave out. I bring that editorial instinct into every engagement: architecture, copy, interface, roadmap.

Built with context, strategy, and
a steady preference for clarity over cleverness.
( 03 ) — Practice Disciplines & methods § 03 / 04

A compact toolkit,
deployed with intent.

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Web engineering

Modern, performant interfaces and systems. Shipping fast without shipping debt: React, TypeScript, Next.js, and a bias toward clean architecture over novelty.

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsNodePostgres
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Applied AI & data

Teaching systems to reason with specificity. From retrieval pipelines and evaluations to measured model deployments, built to actually move a metric, not to impress a demo.

PythonLLM evalRAGEmbeddingsPipelines
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Interface & interaction

Interfaces so steady they disappear. I design and build with the same hand, so the details survive the handoff: typography, state, motion, copy, all held to a single standard.

Design systemsPrototypingMotionCopywriting
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Strategy & product

Connecting the build to the business. Scoping engagements with an eye on positioning, acquisition and retention, so engineering effort is spent where it compounds.

ScopingRoadmapsGrowthOperator mindset
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( 04 ) — Correspondence Let us build something considered § 04 / 04

Let’s make
something lasting.

Booking Q2 / Q3 — 2026

If you are building a product with conviction (a founder with a real problem, a team with a real timeline), I would like to hear about it. Short engagements, long engagements, or a quiet consultation over a single question.

Typical response < 24 hours

Tell me what you are working on, where you are stuck, and what “shipped” means to you. I will reply with a plain answer: whether I am the right partner, or whether I know who is.

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Electronic mail
kerem.kahraman001@gmail.com
Primary Write
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Professional
LinkedIn — kerem-kahraman
Work history Visit
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Source
GitHub — KeremKahraman9
Open source Visit
Start a conversation Say hello → — 2026