About

Civil engineer, then auditor, then — once the tools got good enough — someone who ships software.

Audit and investigation

Since 2018 I have worked in internal audit at two insurance companies — Anadolu Sigorta, and Turkcell Digital Insurance since 2023. Most of what I have found interesting has been on the investigation side.

The cases I still think about are the ones where nothing was broken. Every control had operated exactly as written, the paperwork was complete, and the money had still gone to the wrong place. You only see those by looking across transactions rather than at any one of them.

Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and trained in fraud investigation and interrogation techniques.

The habit that work leaves you with is a particular way of looking at any system: if I wanted to abuse this, where would I start? If something went wrong here, where would it hide? That question turns out to be just as useful pointed at software as at a claims department.

Engineering

Before audit I worked in structural engineering: the main terminal superstructure at Istanbul Airport, then coordination between the design office and the site on Marmaray. Large projects where the gap between the drawing and what actually gets built is where the problems live.

Timeline

• 2008–2015 B.Sc. Civil Engineering (ABET), Istanbul Technical University.
• 2013–2015 Freelance structural designer.
• 2015–2016 Superstructure site engineer at IGA — the main terminal superstructure at Istanbul Airport, managing subcontractors.
• 2017 Structural design engineer at Prota, coordinating between the design office and the site on the Marmaray project.
• 2018–2023 Internal audit at Anadolu Sigorta.
• 2021 Started writing trading strategies in the MetaStock language — backtesting them, and wiring the ones that held up to send live orders to my broker.
• 2022–2023 M.Sc. Information Technology (Computer Science), Istanbul Technical University. Where I learned Python, SQL and databases.
• 2023 Began using AI in my audit work.
• 2023–present Internal audit at Turkcell Digital Insurance.
• January 2026 Started building applications with AI coding agents.
• March 2026 Moved to Claude for coding and for everything else.
• July 2026 MenuBank became a company.