🧾 CV

Director of Product — Arena Inc.

Vienna / New York

Feb 2024 – Present

Arena is a SocialFi platform combining embedded wallets, perpetual trading, token launches, and social features.

• Led a team of 12 engineers and 3 designers
• Integrated perpetuals trading via Hyperliquid; $100M volume in first month
• DEX reached $500M cumulative volume since May 2025
• Scaled platform from ~2k to ~16k DAU
• Shipped embedded wallets (EVM + Solana), account abstraction, cross-chain protocols
• Social login to wallet provisioning (Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok)
• Enabled AI agents across the social platform and designed an agent economy layer within the social app
• Launched platform token with staking and revenue sharing; ~$200M FDV peak

Product & Engineering Lead — Ural e.U.

Vienna

May 2022 – Feb 2024

Consumer NFT and gaming launches on Avalanche and Starknet. Managed 3 engineers, 2 designers, 4 artists. Products: OOPA, FlipBlob, Platypus. Concept to launch across UX, smart-contract integration, and release operations.

Software Engineer (AR / Embedded) — Snap Inc.

Vienna

Mar 2021 – May 2022

Embedded software for Snap smart glasses. Built userspace libraries interfacing with Android and custom Linux sensor drivers. Collaborated across hardware, firmware, and product design.

Embedded Software Team Lead — Riddle&Code

Vienna

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

Led embedded and security projects across automotive, logistics, energy, and fintech. Owned delivery planning, customer communication, and task breakdowns.

Software Engineer — Airties

Istanbul

Aug 2018 – Jan 2019

Core software for telecom customers. Triaged and fixed production issues.

Embedded Software Engineer — Accenture

Istanbul

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018

Embedded components across multiple client projects. Istanbul.

Embedded Software Engineer — Volrad

Ankara

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017

Firmware and peripheral drivers on bare-metal PIC microcontrollers. Ankara.