
Founder & AI Systems Engineer · Production AI and Data Systems
I am a software engineer and founder of ScoutMind AI, based in London. SimsekDev is my independent engineering and consulting practice. I work directly with founders and businesses across full-stack software, agentic AI, computer vision and cloud infrastructure.
Building my own products has shaped how I approach engineering: technical decisions need to serve the product. I take ownership from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment and iteration. Outside engineering, I compete as an IPF Classic powerlifter in the 83 kg class.
I build systems with intent, but I start with the problem before the technology.
My curiosity for engineering started in childhood — taking apart computers, reinstalling operating systems and experimenting with networks simply to understand how things worked beneath the surface. That curiosity eventually became the way I approach software: understand the users, data, constraints and dependencies first, then decide what the system should look like.
My strongest work sits where software, data and AI meet real-world workflows. I build production AI systems with deterministic logic, evaluation, observability and human review around the models rather than treating AI as a black box. Whether I’m working with computer vision, LLMs or asynchronous cloud workloads, the goal is the same: make complex technology reliable and useful to the people operating it.
As the founder behind ScoutMind, I’ve worked across the entire lifecycle of a product — researching scouting workflows, designing the architecture, building the product and AI pipeline, deploying infrastructure, evaluating system quality and iterating when reality exposes weaknesses in the original assumptions. That end-to-end ownership is the kind of engineering I enjoy most.
I care about technical depth, but I care just as much about judgment: knowing what to automate, what should remain deterministic, where AI adds real value, when an abstraction is worth creating and when the simplest implementation is the better engineering decision.
Every project is part of a longer trajectory. I want to keep working on increasingly difficult systems where product judgment, engineering depth and ownership matter at the same time.
I compete in IPF Classic powerlifting in the 83 kg class. Competitive powerlifting has strengthened my ability to stay composed and perform under heavy pressure, especially when there is very little margin for error and the outcome depends on execution in the moment.
Training is structured, measurable and performance-driven, and I approach it much like engineering: identify the limiting factor, measure what matters, make deliberate changes and repeat long enough for the results to compound.
That mindset carries directly into how I work. I’m comfortable in demanding environments, making decisions under pressure and staying focused when a system, delivery or outcome genuinely matters.
My professional journey
ScoutMind AI · scoutmind.ai • Remote, UK
04/2025 - Present
I founded and shipped ScoutMind AI, a sports-tech SaaS that turns raw football footage into structured player, team and match intelligence. I own the product end to end: researching scouting workflows and video-analysis pain points, translating them into a production system, and keeping it reliable after launch. Built on Next.js, a Python backend and a 20-stage computer-vision pipeline running on AWS.
Egasidan · egasidan.com • Hybrid, Turkiye
11/2025 - 04/2026
Embedded with a six-engineer team to help deliver the 0→1 web platform and REST API layer for a bilingual Central Asia-focused marketplace. I worked between customer requirements, legal considerations, product decisions and engineering execution, turning an evolving product into practical technical scopes and delivery priorities across APIs, localisation, external integrations and infrastructure. Stack: Next.js, Flutter, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Platform.
Mia Technology • Remote · Türkiye
06/2023 - 10/2023
I shipped a production admin dashboard as part of a five-engineer sub-team serving a major Turkish enterprise. Stack: Next.js, Nest.js, PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS, OAuth, GCP and REST APIs.
Ege Yapı Construction • On-site • Istanbul, Türkiye
05/2022 - 09/2022
Embedded on-site as the internal IT point of contact for site engineers, project managers and back-office staff, working across the head office and company locations around Istanbul. This was my first experience sitting directly with users: they described symptoms rather than filing clean technical tickets, so the job was to diagnose the real problem across hardware, software, CRM and internal systems, fix it, and explain the cause and resolution in terms they could act on.
University of Essex
Essex, UK • 2023 - 2026
Focused on AI, Computer Vision, Natural Language Engineering, Recommendation Systems, Data Structures, Databases & Information Retrieval, and Scalable System Design.
Achievements:
University of York
Yorkshire, UK • 2022 - 2023
Completed core modules and projects in advanced mathematics, algorithms, robotics and problem solving.
Achievements:
Amazon Web Services
Udemy
British Powerlifting · IPF Classic · 83 kg Class · Progress toward elite totals
Official Total
592.5kg
Jul 2026 · 3rd Competition
Unofficial Total
602.5kg
I engineer my training the same way I engineer software: a measured baseline, weekly increments, instrumentation in place and a projected outcome the work is held to.
Feb 2026
S
190
2.04× BW
B
125
1.34× BW
D
220
2.37× BW
5.75× BW
Mar 2026
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200
2.41× BW
B
130
1.57× BW
D
220
2.65× BW
6.63× BW
Jul 2026
S
220
2.65× BW
B
132.5
1.60× BW
D
240
2.89× BW
7.14× BW
Jul 2026
S
220
2.65× BW
B
142.5
1.72× BW
D
240
2.89× BW
7.26× BW
Dec 2026
S
230
2.77× BW
B
150
1.81× BW
D
250
3.01× BW
7.59× BW