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Curriculum vitae

Gökhan Turhan

Full-stack builder & solopreneur

Full-stack builder and solopreneur — one person, a fleet of agents. Ships agent-native products end to end (venue, payment rail, benchmark, open standard, security program) across fintech infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and tokenized markets — live, in production, taking real machine payments.

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Profile

Growth and business development operator focused on building growth engines that compound distribution, conversion, and revenue. I run end-to-end systems across performance marketing, partnership development, CRM orchestration, and experimentation to move quickly from strategy to measurable outcomes.

As a founder-technologist I ship full-stack apps end-to-end — architecture, code, deployment, and distribution — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals, from smart contracts to landing pages.

My operating model blends AI-native execution with channel-specific creative, analytics instrumentation, and rapid iteration loops across paid, owned, and earned media. I specialize in memetic viral social engineering: message architecture, platform-native storytelling, and feedback-driven campaign scaling that improves both reach and unit economics.

I am proactive by default, with taste in art, classical and jazz music, a serious home-chef practice, and a consistent training-and-sports discipline.

Experience

Founder & CTO — Atelier Gökhan Turhan İstanbul

  • Founder and sole technologist — chief technical officer, developer, coder, and bootstrapper in one, shipping the entire stack from smart contract to landing page.
  • Atelier Gökhan Turhan is a venture research studio into AGI and human coexistence, incubating products at the seam of AI, crypto, and startups.
  • Ship full-stack apps end-to-end — architecture, code, deployment, and growth — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals.

Founder — Numetal İstanbul

  • Numetal is the Agent Accelerator Studio & Bureau within Atelier Gökhan Turhan — chain-agnostic, building and backing autonomous agents under one brand and one token ($NUMETAL).
  • Lead architect, developer, and operator across product, protocol, and distribution — "we ship machines that ship themselves."

Head of Growth & Marketing — Kingpost.io + Quake Cash

  • Led growth strategy across a hybrid fintech product spanning custodial RWA issuance and DeFi-native perpetual markets.
  • Built GTM positioning, CRM pipelines (HubSpot), partnership funnels, and content-driven acquisition using AI-assisted workflows.
  • Operated across product, BD, marketing, and social media, connective tissue between technical teams and market execution.
  • Prototyped internal tools, landing pages, and documentation using Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma.

Independent Researcher & Advisor — Freelance İstanbul

  • Published research on DeFi protocol mechanics, tokenization frameworks, and distributed systems governance.
  • Advisory engagements across fintech and deep-tech verticals on product positioning, org design, and market entry.
  • Technical copywriting, documentation, and newsletter production for protocol and infrastructure clients.

Content Specialist & Client Success — GoDaddy Türkiye (via Artı İletişim) & MCAN Health İstanbul

  • Content strategy, copywriting, and customer success across health tourism and domain services markets.

NGO Volunteer & Contributor — Helsinki Citizens' Assembly İstanbul

  • Long-term civic engagement in human rights advocacy, cross-cultural dialogue, and community organizing.

English Language Instructor — İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi & Çanakkale 18 Mart Üniversitesi

  • University-level EFL/ESL instruction; curriculum development and cross-cultural communication.

Education

  • M.A. Comparative Literature — Top of Class

    İstanbul Bilgi University

    2014–2017

    Thesis: "The Importance and Function of Media Laboratories for the Preservation of Works of Digital and Electronic Literature"

    Google Scholar

  • B.A. American Culture & Literature

    Bahçeşehir University

    2006–2012

Publications & exhibitions

  • Published author and exhibited conceptual artist.
  • "On the Hyperstitional Implications of Memes as Digital Objects in Turkey"

Skills & tooling

Agents & orchestration

  • Multi-agent fleets: orchestrator + subagent patterns, drop-in skills, scheduled and autonomous runs
  • MCP — building and shipping servers, clients, and agent skills
  • Agent-to-agent protocols: A2A negotiation, agent identity (ERC-8004 · DID · VC)
  • Computer-use, browser automation, and headless verification loops

Agentic payments

  • x402 · HTTP 402 · MPP — machine-to-machine settlement, running in production (USDC on Base)
  • Paid agent surfaces: metered APIs, per-call pricing, payment-gated MCP and skills
  • Stablecoin rails, treasury design, and fee-flow mechanics for agent economies

AI · LLM · AGI infrastructure

  • Model routing and inference economics — token markets, cost/latency arbitrage across providers
  • Evals and benchmarks — designing and operating public leaderboards
  • Embeddings, retrieval, vector search; context and memory architecture for agents
  • Tool-agnostic across the stack — coding agents, IDEs, model APIs, local inference; new tools absorbed the week they ship

Quantitative & protocol research

  • Onchain analytics and token-flow forensics — SQL over chain data, explorer archaeology
  • Market microstructure: AMMs, auction mechanisms, prediction markets, fee mechanics
  • Open-standards authorship and API/spec design (OpenAPI, CC-licensed schemas)

Security & hardening

  • Red-teaming agent systems: prompt injection, tool abuse, egress control
  • Product security programs: audits, fuzzing, key hygiene, least-privilege operations

Web design · UX · UI

  • End-to-end front-of-house: design system → code → deploy, no handoffs
  • Typography-first, monochrome design systems; print-grade information design

Fintech domain

  • RWA Tokenization (Custodial & Non-Custodial)
  • Perpetuals · AMMs · Stablecoins
  • Hybrid Fintech Architecture
  • TradingView · PineScript

Stack

  • Solidity · Rust · Python · TypeScript — read, review, pair; the fleet types, I sign off
  • EVM · SVM · BTC Core — from bytecode to block data
  • Edge-first: the whole estate runs on Cloudflare Workers, DNS to deploy

Studio practice

  • Identity, motion, and sound produced in-house — brand system to shipped film to score
  • Exhibited conceptual artist; the taste is load-bearing

Growth engine

  • The full revenue loop, solo: CRM, pipeline, analytics, retention — agent-orchestrated, portable to whatever stack is already paid for
  • Instrumentation before intuition: events and funnels wired at launch, not after
  • Knowledge is plumbed, not stored — a working memex feeds the fleet

Distribution

  • Every rail that moves attention: mainstream, decentralized, alt, and agent-only networks
  • Memetic engineering — message architecture, platform-native storytelling, feedback-scaled
  • Technical prose that ships product: docs, specs, dispatches, newsletters — search-optimized without smelling of it

Languages

  • Turkish: Native
  • English: IELTS 8/9
  • Japanese: Elementary