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Meet the peoplebehind the work.

The engineers, designers, product leaders, and operators behind our work. Select a photo to see someone’s LinkedIn profile.

Technical leadership

  • Armağan Amcalar

    Founder & CEO

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  • Sönmez Kartal

    Fractional CTO & Systems Architect

  • Mert Dogar

    Architect & Consultant

Product & delivery

  • Gülnur Bayhan

    Director of Engineering & Product

  • Ekin Mahiroglu

    Technical Product & Project Manager

  • Kürşat Sevim

    Design Lead

Engineering

  • İlkay Dinç

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Tamay Eser Uysal

    Senior Engineer

  • Murat Erkin Cicek

    Senior Software Engineer

  • Ben Sukstorf

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

  • Merve Uygun Erdol

    Software Engineer

  • Doğukan İncesu

    Software Engineer

  • Numan Selman Duman

    Full-Stack Software Engineer

  • Göktürk Acar

    Software Engineer

  • Melis Guclu

    Software Engineer

  • Arda Koçak

    Software Engineer

Operations & growth

  • Deniz Kaynak

    Head of Marketing

  • Christin Santos

    Head of Operations

  • Alisa Skopintseva

    Business Growth Manager

Technical leadership

Armağan Amcalar

Founder & CEO

6 years building Coyotiv

Berlin, Germany

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Founder of Coyotiv and fractional CTO at OpenServ and Neol; previously fractional CTO at a hotel booking platform and a US healthcare platform. Combines LLM research, hands-on engineering, and technical leadership, with experience teaching at universities and speaking at international developer conferences. Technology mentor at OMMA, with other work including Beko and Dream Kid.

OpenServ & Neol · Fractional CTO

Leads technical direction and engineering across an AI agent orchestration platform and Neol’s talent network and AI-powered network intelligence.

LLM research · BRAID

Co-authored BRAID with Eyup Cinar: structured LLM reasoning, benchmark evaluation, and inference cost efficiency, conducted at OpenServ Labs.

  • Technical strategy
  • Systems architecture
  • LLM research
  • Engineering leadership
Career background & education
Coyotiv GmbH2020–Present
Founder & Managing Director
unu GmbH2015–2019
Head of Software Engineering
Startup Kitchen2012–2015
Co-founder & Chief Software Architect
Tart New Media2010–2012
Chief / Software Architect
Chocolate ITS / 35nokta52005–2010
Frontend Developer

Education & training

  • M.Sc. Electronics Eng., Sabancı University (2007–2010)
  • B.Sc. Microelectronics Eng., Sabancı University (2003–2007)

The specialists we work with.

People we have worked with for years. They also mentor our students one to one.

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  • Mehmet PerkProduct leader

  • Fareen ShaikhCareer coach

  • Mihri MinazCo-founder of Beams

  • Üstün ÖzgürSoftware engineer who builds startups

  • Füsun WehrmannDirector of Engineering & Product

Work with this team.

We hire working students for admissions and for growth, part-time, in German and English.