Senior Software Developer · Product & Platform Engineer · Indie Builder
I turn complex operational and product problems into software that can be tested, deployed, and maintained. With 12+ years of experience, I have worked across enterprise backends, API platforms, integrations, observability, applied AI, and cross-platform product development—including services handling more than 10 million requests per day.
Today I build products under two independent initiatives:
- GatewayLabs — local-first developer tools and operational intelligence for API, platform, DevOps, and SRE teams.
- Noctua Design — mobile games, interactive worlds, and release-ready app experiences.
| Product | What it does | Availability |
|---|---|---|
| Specfold | Local-first desktop API collection studio for OpenAPI, Swagger, Postman, Insomnia, HAR, .http, and cURL workflows. |
Open source · v1.9.0 for Windows, macOS, and Linux |
| GatewayLabs Signal | Turns logs, deploys, configuration, and local evidence into clearer incident findings for DevOps, SRE, and platform teams. | Productized workflow |
| GatewayLabs ConfigDiff | Detects and explains configuration drift between production and non-production environments. | Public companion repository |
| Way of the Night: Idle Hunter | Android-first idle RPG set in a dark urban-fantasy version of modern Turkey. | Live on Google Play |
| Remil Ritual: Geomancy | A modern mobile experience built around the traditional 16-position geomancy tableau. | Live on Google Play |
| Block Rush | A focused mobile block-puzzle game built for quick sessions, clean feedback, and instant restarts. | Live on Google Play |
| Umbra Play | A compact mobile arcade and puzzle collection with multiple replayable game loops. | Live on Google Play |
- RetinaScope AI — a research-stage retinal imaging workspace combining a React interface, .NET 8 API, FastAPI/OpenCV inference services, PostgreSQL, audit trails, and human-controlled review gates. It is designed as clinical decision support research, not as an autonomous diagnostic system.
- Workplace Risk Intelligence — a multilingual React/FastAPI product for evidence intake, relationship graph analysis, workflow signals, case triage, model governance, and human review.
- Signal Incident Clarity — a structured delivery flow that converts operational evidence into reproducible, decision-ready incident outputs.
- Umbra Play — a live Flutter arcade hub with multiple branded Android flavors, shared progression, store systems, and repeatable release tooling.
- Block Rush — a live mobile block-puzzle experience with short-session progression, cosmetics, consent, advertising, and store foundations.
- Pulse Bounce — a Flutter + Flame momentum platformer with a 60-level, JSON-driven campaign.
- Way of Apep — a 60-level triangle-fold puzzle game with automated shortest-path validation for level solutions.
- Way of the Night — a Godot 2.5D action vertical slice set in modern Ankara and inspired by Turkish myth.
Most active commercial product repositories remain private while they move through product, security, compliance, and store-release work. Public product pages and downloadable releases are linked above.
| Area | Technologies and practices |
|---|---|
| Backend & platforms | C#, .NET / ASP.NET Core, Python, FastAPI, REST/SOAP APIs, authentication, integrations |
| Frontend & mobile | React, TypeScript, Flutter, Dart, Flame, Godot, Unity |
| Data & search | PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Logstash, graph and image-processing workflows |
| Delivery & operations | Docker, Docker Compose, Caddy, IIS, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitOps, Linux deployments |
| Production quality | Automated tests, release preflights, dependency audits, immutable deployments, smoke checks, observability, rollback planning |
| Responsible AI | Human-in-the-loop decisions, auditability, model governance, explicit research and clinical safety boundaries |
- Start with a real operational or user problem and define a measurable outcome.
- Keep secrets, signing material, and production credentials outside source control.
- Make analyze, test, build, security, and release-readiness checks repeatable in CI.
- Treat deployment, privacy, consent, billing, observability, and recovery as part of the product rather than post-launch chores.
- Prefer small, reviewable delivery boundaries and evidence-backed iteration.
- Specfold — cross-platform, local-first API collection studio.
- GatewayLabs ConfigDiff — configuration drift automation and operational guidance.
- AzureDevOpsScripts — utilities for Azure DevOps project workflows.
- ImplementMetarTaf — scheduled METAR/TAF ingestion using Hangfire.
- JsonToDB — JSON aggregation and SQL insert generation tooling.
I am interested in backend and platform engineering, developer tools, B2B SaaS, DevOps automation, applied AI, and independent product collaborations.
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/orkunk
- GatewayLabs / business: orkun@gatewaylabs.net
- Noctua Design / games: info@noctua.design
- Noctua Design video: youtube.com/@NoctuaDesign
Current work spans private commercial repositories and public releases. Product links above are the best place to follow what is shipping.