ÖZGÜR CELEBI
forward deployed ai engineer + ex-ctpo
embedded with clients. agentic systems and integrations, shipped to production, measured with evals.
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CONTACT: OEZGUERCELEBI@GMAIL.COM
LOCATION: BERLIN, GERMANY · DE / EN / TR
STATUS: AVAILABLE FOR FREELANCE FDE ENGAGEMENTS + OPEN TO FDE ROLES
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CLIENT WORK:
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NOW●
Otto Finance ... agentic workflows for financial advisers
workflow runner with crash recovery, human-in-the-loop approvals, transactional outbox, signed webhooks
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TRADING●
Mercora ........ agentic system for physical trading ops
document data extraction, checks against external datasets, delay flagging
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VOICE●
Zaitgeist ...... ai architecture for ai voice calling
system boundaries, trade-offs, implementation review · 2025—2026
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OWN PRODUCTS:
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PROD●
LUNA ........... ai image + video studio for brands
job queue with stale-job recovery, model fallback, per-call cost tracking, idempotent stripe webhooks, multi-tenant rls
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EVALS●
LLM evals ...... gold sets + validated llm judges
blinded judges checked against humans (κ 0.93), cross-vendor model benchmark on quality, cost, runtime
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AGENT●
Boom ........... desktop agent on claude agent sdk
mcp tools, tool allowlist, secret redaction, privacy gate tested on 520 labelled cases
OTHER: HappySonar, Agentville, Reps, himaia, Aura OS, Interstellar, Swarm
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HISTORY:
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2024—now●
Fuse Link ...... Freelance Forward Deployed AI Engineer
own company · client engagements + own ai products
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2025●
Antler ......... Entrepreneur in Residence
berlin cohort, finalist for internal investment
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2023—2024●
CURE ........... Chief Technology & Product Officer
led 25 people · wolt, lieferando, uber eats integrations · expansion to france
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2020—2023●
Mitte .......... Engineering Manager
promoted from senior ios developer · 11 direct reports
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2015—2020●
Native apps .... iOS Developer → Senior iOS Developer
Asana Rebel, Babbel, apprime, Tapglue, freelance
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