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.
Contact
- Location: İstanbul, Türkiye
- Email: contact@gokhan.vc
- Website: gokhan.vc
- Website: gokhanturhan.com
- Website: numetal.xyz
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan
- X: x.com/goekhan
- GitHub: github.com/avalidurl
- GitHub (gokhan-vc): github.com/gokhan-vc
- Substack: gokhan.substack.com
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 — Gökhan Ventures (İstanbul)
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- Founder and sole technologist — chief technical officer, developer, coder, and bootstrapper in one, shipping the entire stack from smart contract to landing page.
- Gökhan Ventures 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)
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- Numetal is the Agent Accelerator Studio & Bureau within Gökhan Ventures — 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
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- Content strategy, copywriting, and customer success across health tourism and domain services markets.
NGO Volunteer & Contributor — Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (İstanbul)
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- Long-term civic engagement in human rights advocacy, cross-cultural dialogue, and community organizing.
English Language Instructor — İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi & Çanakkale 18 Mart Üniversitesi
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- 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
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