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title: "Team — The People Behind Coyotiv"
description: "Meet the Coyotiv team. Technical leadership, product and design, engineering, and operations, with each person’s experience, selected work, and background."
url: https://coyotiv.com/team/
---

# Meet the people behind the work.

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

## Technical leadership

- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/armaganamcalar/)  
Armağan Amcalar  
Founder & CEO  
[Read the profile](https://coyotiv.com/team/#armagan)
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonmezkartal/)  
Sönmez Kartal  
Fractional CTO & Systems Architect
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mertdogar/)  
Mert Dogar  
Architect & Consultant

## Product & delivery

- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulnurbayhan/)  
Gülnur Bayhan  
Director of Engineering & Product
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekin-mahiroglu/)  
Ekin Mahiroglu  
Technical Product & Project Manager
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kursatsevim/)  
Kürşat Sevim  
Design Lead

## Engineering

- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkaydnc/)  
İlkay Dinç  
Senior Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/puskuruk/)  
Tamay Eser Uysal  
Senior Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/murat-erkin-cicek/)  
Murat Erkin Cicek  
Senior Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-sukstorf/)  
Ben Sukstorf  
Full-Stack Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/merve-erdol/)  
Merve Uygun Erdol  
Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogukanincesu/)  
Doğukan İncesu  
Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/numanselmanduman/)  
Numan Selman Duman  
Full-Stack Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/g%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrk-acar-a69223241/)  
Göktürk Acar  
Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melis-guclu/)  
Melis Guclu  
Software Engineer
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theardakocak/)  
Arda Koçak  
Software Engineer

## Operations & growth

- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/deniz-kaynak-59389911/)  
Deniz Kaynak  
Head of Marketing
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinsantos/)  
Christin Santos  
Head of Operations
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisa-skopintseva/)  
Alisa Skopintseva  
Business Growth Manager

Technical leadership

### Armağan Amcalar

Founder & CEO

6 years building Coyotiv

Berlin, Germany

[LinkedIn profile ↗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/armaganamcalar/)

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 GmbH 2020–Present

Founder & Managing Director

unu GmbH 2015–2019

Head of Software Engineering

Startup Kitchen 2012–2015

Co-founder & Chief Software Architect

Tart New Media 2010–2012

Chief / Software Architect

Chocolate ITS / 35nokta5 2005–2010

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.

[Book a mentor](https://coyotiv.com/school/mentorship/)

- Mehmet Perk Product leader
- Fareen Shaikh Career coach
- Mihri Minaz Co-founder of Beams
- Üstün Özgür Software engineer who builds startups
- [](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fuesun)  
Füsun Wehrmann Director of Engineering & Product

## Work with this team.

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

[See open roles](https://coyotiv.com/careers/) [Our story](https://coyotiv.com/company/about/)