Follow the light

Berke Düzgün software engineer, founder.

I build payment and core banking systems for enterprises, and co-run Sazora, an independent app studio.

Systems that can't afford to stop.

Payment infrastructure, core banking and hospital finance. Work where downtime has a price.

  1. Dgpays

    Expert Software Engineer

    – PresentRemote

    I build and optimize core banking and advanced reporting modules for large-scale financial transformation projects, working across the full stack. I also take hands-on responsibility for DevOps operations.

    Core banking, Advanced reporting, Full stack development, DevOps

  2. Innovance Consultancy

    Full Stack Developer

    – Istanbul, Turkey

    Through Innovance I consulted for SIBS, a European payment infrastructure company, working on payment infrastructure, batch systems, tokenization and card systems. In the same role I also built ticketing and travel backends, contributed to AI R&D projects and developed the GSYIAD backoffice panel for the Galatasaray Board of Directors.

    Payment infrastructure, Batch systems, Tokenization and card systems, Ticketing and travel backends, AI R&D

  3. Acıbadem Healthcare Group

    Full Stack Developer

    – Istanbul, Turkey

    I worked on Cerebral Plus, a healthcare management and information system for international hospitals and health chains. I developed its charging systems, invoice processing and advanced reporting, on both the frontend and the backend.

    Healthcare information system, Charging systems, Invoice processing, Advanced reporting

  4. Viveven

    Founder

    – Istanbul, Turkey

    I founded a technology startup that built in-house SaaS products and delivered software for contracted enterprise clients. I engineered and scaled a data scraping and analytics platform, which was acquired within a year.

    In-house SaaS products, Data scraping and analytics, Enterprise client projects, Product exit

  5. Sixfab

    Software Developer

    – California, USA (remote)

    As a contract full stack developer, I designed and built a containerized web application end to end: a Flask REST API with JWT authentication, MongoDB for the data and a Vue.js frontend.

    Flask REST API, JWT authentication, MongoDB data modeling, Vue.js frontend, Docker

  6. Nextlua

    Software Developer

    – Istanbul, Turkey

    As a backend developer, I worked on the CRM and CMS platforms behind mobility and automotive brands including Garenta, Ikinciyeni and Getir Araç (Moov). I was responsible for backend architecture and integrations.

    CRM platforms, CMS platforms, Backend architecture, Integrations

Six layers, one line through them.

  1. Frontend

    JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, React Native, HTML, CSS, MobX

  2. Backend

    C#, ASP.NET Core, Java Spring Boot, Go, Python, Flask, RESTful

  3. Data

    PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, NoSQL, Vector DB, Redis, Entity Framework, Prisma, Drizzle, Mongoose, Dapr

  4. Architecture

    Microservices, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), CQRS, Test Driven Development (TDD), Task Management

  5. DevOps & Cloud

    Azure, AWS, DevOps, Cloud Applications, Docker, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Git

  6. AI

    Generative AI, Prompt Engineering, LLM Integration, AI-Powered Applications, TensorFlow

Alongside all of it, I build my own.

Sazora is the independent app studio I co-founded. One prism, many lights: each app takes its own colour.

Visit sazora.io

Products

Ambient, Entertainment

LumaReef

A living reef on every screen.

LumaReef turns your TV, browser or tablet into a breathing reef aquarium that you care for from your phone.

Live on the web. Coming soon to phones, tablets and TVs.

Weather, Aurora

Solwind

Know when to look up.

One honest number for the aurora where you are, with alerts only when it’s dark and clear.

Coming soon to iPhone & Apple Watch. Free to download. Smart alerts, the next three nights, widgets, Live Activities and Apple Watch come with Solwind Pro.

Sports, Platform

Spordium

Put your facility in play.

A white-label platform for pitches, courts, pools and gyms. Bookings, QR check-in, classes, leagues and loyalty, in an app with your own brand.

Live on iPhone, Android and the web.

SaaS, Founder tools

WallMRR

Put your MRR on the wall.

WallMRR is a live MRR dashboard for your TV. Connect RevenueCat, Stripe, Polar, DataFa.st or Stalkr.ai, pair any screen with a six-character code, and watch every sale land from across the room. Built for founders who ship.

In public beta on the web, with Apple TV and Android TV apps coming soon.

Sleep, iOS

Lubb

Fall asleep to a heartbeat.

Lubb turns an iPhone into a slow, realistic heartbeat you can feel: a soft vibration under the edge of your pillow, like resting your head on someone's chest. It's for adults who sleep better with someone beside them.

Live on iPhone.

Commerce, Shopify

Carboy

Sell every size from one bottle, sack or drum.

Pooled inventory for Shopify shops that buy in bulk and sell by the portion: decants, tea, coffee, spices and refills.

Early access. Join from the Carboy website.

More from the studio, and before it.

Before Sazora

  • Viveven

    Startup, Feb 2023 - Jan 2024

    A data scraping and analytics platform for automated web data extraction and market insights. I built it at Viveven, the startup I founded, and managed the product from its first architecture through to commercialization.

    Acquired within a year

  • VizePlus

    SaaS, Mar 2025 - Dec 2025

    A visa appointment tracking and alert service. It shows appointment slots in real time, sends push, SMS and email alerts, and includes an AI visa assistant and an agency sales panel where MCP handles automatic appointment booking. It was featured on Product Hunt.

    Visit: VizePlus
  • HOOP

    Startup, Jun 2024 - Nov 2025

    A mobile food delivery app and ERP that connects users with partner restaurants and delivers on electric scooters, so an order does not interrupt a day at the beach. It has real-time order tracking and an onboarding system for restaurant partners.

    Visit: HOOP
  • Çalhanoğlu Football Academy

    Client work, Aug 2025

    A full stack platform that digitizes student registrations, branch applications and academy operations, with separate panels for students, branches and administrators.

    Visit: Çalhanoğlu Football Academy
  • DataMorph

    Machine learning, Jan 2025 - May 2025

    A recommendation engine that serves personalized recommendations in real time through configurable data flows and several strategies: content-based, collaborative filtering and hybrid. It runs on a microservices architecture with MLflow model tracking and Redis caching.

  • DataDex+

    AI and data, Feb 2024 - Dec 2024

    An AI-powered platform for data extraction and search, built on data mining and web scraping. It helps SMEs, enterprises and individual users run industry and competitor analysis and get personalized recommendations from its AI models.

  • ShieldPoint

    Security

    A data loss prevention (DLP) product focused on stopping data loss and protecting endpoints.

    Visit: ShieldPoint

Notes from the work.

Research paperJournal of Data Science and Modern Techniques, Aug 2025

Development of Salary Prediction Models for the Information Technology Industry

A peer-reviewed paper written with Ceren Ulus and Mehmet Fatih Akay. We built machine learning and ensemble models on about 10,000 records to predict salaries in the IT sector, and Random Forest performed best with a MAPE of 2.60%.

All articles on Medium

Away from the keyboard.

Tennis, played and trained seriously. Target shooting, regular range practice, for focus and technique. Film and cinematography, visual storytelling, film analysis and filming techniques. Cooking, world cuisines, with healthy, protein-rich recipes. Reading, philosophy and psychology. Piano, at an amateur level.

Education

  • Kocaeli University

    BEng, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2020 – 2025

  • Meram Science High School

    Science high school diploma, 2016 – 2020

Languages

  • Turkish

    Native

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Beginner

Let's build something.

Available for engineering roles and product collaborations.

duzgunberke@gmail.com

Download CVPDF, in English

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