Dokuz Eylül University
International Trade and Business
This is where I learned what a supply chain really is, and what brand voice means.
Walk up. Introduce myself. Earn two minutes.
Every project started with a cold approach on the fair floor: no appointment, no warm lead, just the stand and its owner.
Crew and jimmy jib on the stand.
We filmed 2–3 minute social-media videos of exhibitors' stands at business fairs. I kept the client, the crew and the schedule moving in the same direction.
Hand over the finished video.
The client receives a film they can post the same week, while the fair is still fresh in their buyers' minds.
Complete. Paid. See you at the next fair.
I owned the whole cycle: first contact → production → delivery → payment. Most clients came back.
The hall slowly emptied.
The Turkish market contracted, and the agency shrank with it. Fewer stands meant fewer films.
When the line hit the floor, I made my next move: the UK.
MSc Business Management with Data Analytics
Why this course: information, and processing it well, is valuable.
“For me, information is a forest, and I love finding my way through it.”
Here my entrepreneurial side kicked in, and I decided to build something on my own.
Copy what works.
The US market was too expensive to enter as a solo entrepreneur investing my own savings. So I looked for products that sell well in the US but had no supply in other markets.
| Communication & negotiation style | ✓ |
| Product video demos / live video calls | ✓ |
| Health certificate (arranged with supplier, submitted to Amazon) | ✓ |
| Quality knowledge (inspection reports, steel grades) | ✓ |
| Price-performance | BEST |
| Speed | not the fastest |
Not the fastest. The best overall.
My supplier was not the fastest or the highest quality, but the best overall choice: top on price-performance.
I designed the box and my own logo with AI, and had it printed on the packaging.Factory door to Amazon's warehouse.
One blue line on the map, China → Australia. Every hand-over on it was something I had to arrange, check and pay for.
Order before the wave.
Demand for baby plates comes months after a birth peak, when babies start feeding themselves. So I researched birth-rate timing, ordered earlier, and kept higher stock for peaks like Black Friday.
“Super easy to clean, perfect size for my 13 month old, the suction is really good.”
Yasmin · Verified purchase“So good, I literally have trouble getting it off the bench / high chair myself.”
AmazonAddict · Verified purchaseKnow when to walk away.
⚑ EXIT“I learned to calculate landed cost, and to know when to walk away.”
Bar is illustrative, not to scale.
Unshaped
A game idea born from passion. I worked with pixel artists and developers and led a team of about 10. When things stalled, I took over the project myself.
To fill the gaps I learned AI tools: video and motion graphics, 3D character work with tools like OpenPose, and turning camera footage into skeleton animation for the game.
That is how I discovered what AI can do. Then I asked: can it solve my own problems too?
Notebook AI
I talk; it files. The app records speech and sends it to a server where LLMs turn it into alarms, calendar events or notes.
Eltek
A project management system built for my cousin's electrical contracting company.
- Timesheets
- Equipment intake
- Cost items per project
- Meal allowances and leave
- Staff records
Claude Threads by Guven
An interface that splits a task into sub-threads and gives the fixed, well-defined parts to smaller models.
Goal: 20–30% faster at roughly the same token cost.
- Dry-ageing meat for about 29 days
- Cooking by internal temperature, not by guesswork
- Cuts and breeds: Wagyu, Australian, Dutch beef
Chefs I follow: Guga Foods · Meaty and Cheesy · Chef Mehmet · Gordon Ramsay · Uncle Roger
“29 days of dry-ageing. 90 seconds of searing.”
29 days of patience, 90 seconds of perfection.
I'd love to be part of the team behind it.