ABOUT / PROFILE
The person behind the systems.
I’m Bahtiyar Karakoç — a computer engineer, software engineer and incurably curious maker based in Antalya, Türkiye.
Before the job title
Hello from Antalya, a city where the Mediterranean and the snow-covered Taurus Mountains can fit into the same day. I have worked professionally in software for nearly five years, but my relationship with technology began much earlier.
School and science projects introduced me to circuits, sensors, hardware and the first pieces of software that could make something physical respond. That early feeling — turning an idea into a system you can see, touch or test — never really left.
What I build now
Today I design and engineer complex product interfaces: data-heavy enterprise platforms, workflow and rule systems, real-time operational tools, spatial experiences and connected prototypes. My strongest home is modern frontend architecture with React and TypeScript, but I prefer not to treat the browser as a boundary.
If a problem reaches into maps, desktop shells, embedded hardware or a physical prototype, I usually want to follow it. I enjoy ambiguous problems, making invisible structure legible and building systems that remain understandable after the first demo.
Still making things
Away from product work, I keep exploring robotics, embedded systems, 3D printing and DIY builds. During university I led a swarm-UAV team and worked on simulation, pathfinding and targeting problems; today the projects may be smaller or stranger, but the instinct is the same.
I like learning just enough to make the next uncertain thing real, then testing it honestly — in code, on a workbench or out in the physical world.
Outside engineering
Music, photography and film are another part of how I think. I spend time with electric guitar and piano, make photographs and short-film experiments with a Lumix S5IIX, and keep returning to the strange atmospheres of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.
Games, stories and visual worlds often influence how I think about interaction, rhythm and mood — even when the final product is highly technical.
A NOTE ON PROGRESSAchievement matters to me, but I don’t think life is a scoreboard. I see it as experience-led: one more day means one more thing to learn, one more sound to hear, or one more story I would otherwise never meet.