AI-powered SaaS Founding Engineer

Founding engineer / fractional CTO who builds AI-powered SaaS products from zero to production. Has 15+ years of experience, mostly at US startups as employee #1 or early hire. Experience includes Head of Engineering at Runy, Senior Engineer at Edge Delta (built AI chatbot, owned billing), VP of Engineering & Principal Engineer at Braid Health (integrated ML model outputs, full-stack), Founding Engineer at Toolio (built technical foundation), and CTO at SellerCrowd (built social network from scratch to 20,000+ users). Background includes MSc EE from Bilkent with research under Prof. Erdal Arıkan. Conference speaker. Open to founding engineer roles, fractional CTO engagements, or contract work on AI integration / SaaS architecture / observability systems.