Now I'm a full-stack engineer who ships his own products, end to end.
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A private space to journal and talk through your own life — like texting a friend who actually keeps your secrets.
Read the storyHi, I'm Oğuz 👋
I'm a computer engineer based in Antalya, and I've been building things since the day I discovered you could cheat at video games.
That was the moment, honestly. I wrote my first hack as a kid, watched the game bend to my will, and got hooked on the feeling — making a machine do exactly what I wanted. Never really recovered. I became a developer and never looked back.
These days I'm a Senior Backend Developer at Faladdin, an app with a lot of people hitting it at the same time — so my days are spent keeping things fast and standing up under real load. Scale is a great teacher. (A stressful one, but great.)
But a day job was never going to be enough. I'm a builder at heart — I like shipping my own things, the whole thing, from the first line of code to the last pixel. AI didn't change who I am; it just handed me a bigger lever. So I use it to build more, faster, across whatever problem looks worth solving. Sonder
If you've got something interesting to build — a role, a project, or just an idea worth arguing about — my inbox is open.
Core developer on a high-traffic app with a large, active user base.
Freelance, full-time, or just an idea worth arguing about over coffee — I'm open to anything interesting. My inbox is genuinely open. (I read everything.)
[email protected]Oğuz Kurukaya is a full-stack engineer and product builder based in Antalya, Turkey, working as a Senior Backend Developer at Faladdin and shipping his own products end to end. He has been building software since 2020, with a focus on high-traffic backend systems, AI integrations, and product development.
He works across the full stack: Laravel/PHP, Node.js, NestJS, Vue.js, TypeScript, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, AWS (EC2, RDS, SQS), Docker, and Socket.IO. He also builds with Flutter/Dart for mobile, Python for scripting, and integrates OpenAI and LLM APIs for AI-powered features.
Yes — he is open to freelance projects, full-time roles, and interesting collaborations. He works remotely from Antalya, Turkey, and is available for global remote opportunities. Reach him at hello (at) oguzkurukaya.com.
Yes. He built a production AI chatbot at Faladdin — combining ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion with prompt engineering at scale. His own product Sonder also features Sonder AI, an LLM-powered journaling confidant. He approaches AI as a tool that amplifies product value, not a novelty.
Sonder is a private relationship journal — a space to write about your life, tag your feelings, and import chat screenshots via OCR. Sonder AI reads your journal and talks back, helping you spot patterns and understand yourself better. Your data is never sold and your words are never used to train AI.