Senior Product Manager and Founder · Remote
I was the technical PM on Turkey's first regulated lira stablecoin. In my previous role, I built the product function from zero at a $35M ARR marketplace.
8+ years and 11 products shipped across fintech, blockchain, HRtech, and SaaS.
I stay close to the real product. I write the code, I pull my own metrics, and I build my own things on the side.
Full case studies with the problems, constraints, and numbers live at utkuacikgoz.com.
building my own products alongside senior remote PM work.
| Project | What I did |
|---|---|
| BiLira (TRYB) | Technical PM on Turkey's first regulated TRY stablecoin. Cut manual compliance review 35% at 99.7% detection, zero regulatory breaches. Held the Trade API at 99.9% uptime across 50M+ monthly calls for 50+ enterprise clients. |
| Upshift | Built the product function from zero at a $35M ARR marketplace — 50K+ businesses, 200K+ hourly workers. Stopped the enterprise churn that was losing the biggest accounts. |
| Mestores | Around $500K a year was leaking to abandoned carts with no analytics. Shipped quick wins to prove the ROI, then led the platform rebuild. |
| Apollo | Hospital pharmacy digital transformation on a fixed four month deadline, including training the internal team to own it after handover. |
| La3eb | Gaming super app in Saudi Arabia timed to the PS5 launch. Called the revenue miss what it was — a distribution problem, not a product one (15 day retention under 8%, 3,000 DAU) — and refocused the roadmap on community. |
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| PassATS | Live B2C SaaS. AI résumé scorer that checks ATS match, $2.99 per scan, idea to production. |
| tcdd-telegram | Watches Turkish rail for seat availability and alerts you the moment a sold out train frees up. asyncio, Redis, Fly.io. |
| visa-checker | Watches Hungary visa appointment slots and pings me when one opens. |
| polymarket-crypto | Options trading and market making experiments on Polymarket. |
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