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Hi there. I'm Tarik Caliskan, a software engineer.

I'm a software engineer. I build products end to end and ship them fast, with AI as part of how I work every day.

Portrait of Tarik Caliskan

Six years building B2B SaaS at international companies, with acquisition experience along the way. AI-assisted development is my daily workflow, not a novelty.

  • AI-assisted development
  • End-to-end ownership
  • TypeScript · Go
  • Next.js · Rails
  • React Native

Works

JevBall match view: a 3D pitch with each player's options and probabilities, a tactics board and a live decision feed

JevBall

22 AI models, one ball. Open source.

A live 3D football match where each of the 22 players is its own AI model call. Every touch is a typed multiple-choice question and the model answers with probabilities. Watch all 22 decide, or press J and take over the number 9.

TypeScript · 3D · LLM decision loop

jevball.online

Lexicaly

Just talk. Your flashcards make themselves. iOS and Android.

Turns your AI chats into flashcards for the language you're learning. The AI drafts, you pick, and spaced repetition brings each card back right before you'd forget it. Works offline.

React Native · Next.js

lexicaly.com
Lexicaly chat suggesting five new Spanish words to add to a deck
Lexicaly home screen with a quick round and word decks
Geppas website home page: Setting the Global Standard in Livestock Equipment

Geppas

Livestock equipment manufacturer. Live in three languages.

Geppas makes livestock and veterinary equipment in Konya, Türkiye, and exports to 18 countries. As their technical partner I built and shipped their new website in Turkish, English and Russian, with a full product catalog, 3D product views and quote requests, and I keep working on the internal systems behind the business.

Next.js

geppas.com.tr

Open source

Libraries and side projects on GitHub.

An engineer who moves the bottleneck from capacity to prioritization.

The companies I've worked with, and what I did there.

VirtualMetric

IT monitoring platform

Monitoringat scale.

Senior Software Engineer
2025–2026 · Amsterdam, Netherlands

All-in-one IT monitoring for logs, infrastructure and network. Started on the frontend of the monitoring tool, then rebuilt the integration workflow around AI tooling, cutting each new integration from about two days to a few hours.

Kajabi

Creator platform

Three yearson Communities.

Software Engineer
2022–2025 · Irvine, California, USA

Platform for creators to build, market and sell digital products. About three years on the Communities team: migrated the web app to Next.js, moved the backend from Hasura to Rails, optimized serverless deployments, worked on the rebrand.

Vibely

Community platform

Acquired byKajabi in 2022.

Software Engineer
2021–2022 · San Francisco Bay Area, USA

A platform for growing communities around challenges and quality content. Improved the payment system and subscription model for more stable, user-friendly transactions, and shaped the product UI/UX. Acquired by Kajabi in 2022.

Front

Customer communication platform

The first thingcustomers see.

Frontend Developer
2020–2021 · San Francisco, USA

Front serves 200M+ customers and raised $138M. Developed the company landing page with a team of five engineers, with high SEO and accessibility scores.

How I work

It is the default workflow, not a novelty. Design, implementation, tests and docs all go through AI tooling, which changes what one engineer can realistically own and how fast it ships.

That is the normal case. I am comfortable with ambiguous scope and short delivery cycles, and I take a fuzzy requirement through to a release.

No. I work directly with product and clients, the people who actually need the thing, rather than receiving specs through a chain.

Remote and async by default: written updates, clear handoffs, and progress you can see without a meeting.

Let's build the next thing.

Available for contract work. Send a few lines about the problem and I'll reply with how I'd approach it and when I could start.