Hello,

This is Birtan

I make manual work disappear

About Me

I help businesses make their manual work disappear. I design and build AI-powered automations — n8n workflows, AI agents, and system integrations — that take over the work your team still does by hand: processing documents and invoices, routing and enriching leads, syncing data between systems, answering routine requests, and turning machine data into maintenance tickets and reports.

I come to automation the long way around: twelve years as an enterprise software engineer and tech lead, building cloud-native systems on Azure for companies in finance, legal tech, and industry — including AI-powered document intelligence that ran in production, not in a demo. That background is the difference between an automation that works in a screen recording and one that is still running quietly a year later. I build the second kind: documented, monitored, and engineered to be handed over.

My roots are in the physical world. I hold a physics degree from METU, I built my own CNC machine from scratch, and I developed an end-to-end predictive maintenance system — from the vibration sensor on the machine to the cloud database it reports to. If your business runs on machines as well as software, we already speak the same language.

Most engagements start as a one-week Automation Sprint: one scoped workflow, a fixed price from €2,000, delivered with documentation and a recorded handover. Prefer to keep your data on your own servers? I also deploy and manage self-hosted n8n, so nothing leaves your infrastructure.

Away from the keyboard I am usually outdoors hiking, on the padel court, or volunteering at my local repair café — fixing things instead of replacing them is a principle I bring to software, too.

What I Offer

Portfolio

Predictive Maintenance Solution

The Engineer's Private Cloud

CNC Machine

Curriculum Vitae

AI automation engineer with 12 years of prior experience as a backend-focused software engineer and tech lead, specializing in cloud-native solutions on Azure. I design and deliver AI-powered workflow automations — n8n, AI agents, document intelligence, and system integrations — built to production standards: documented, monitored, and made to last. My edge: deep roots in the physical world (IoT, embedded systems, a self-built predictive maintenance platform), which makes me a natural fit for businesses that run on machines as well as software.

Experience

AI Automation Engineer — Self-Employed (02/2026 — Present)
Designing and delivering AI-powered automations for clients: n8n workflows, AI agent integrations, and system integrations. Engagements are typically fixed-scope, one-week Automation Sprints — one workflow, fully documented, with a recorded handover — or self-hosted n8n deployments on the client's own infrastructure.

Team & Tech Lead — Salta Group, Hilversum (Netherlands) (10/2021 — 11/2025)
Led WFT Triple A, a legislation-tracking platform for financial professionals, from inception — as hands-on developer, Solution Architect, and from 2023 as Team & Tech Lead. Delivered a secure, scalable cloud-native Azure solution including an integration with Rabobank, and automated deployment pipelines that cut critical operation times from up to 30 minutes down to a fraction of that.

Software Engineer — Imprima B.V., Amsterdam (Netherlands) (11/2018 — 09/2021)
Built AI-powered Smart Solutions for document search and summarization on a leading virtual data room platform — production AI, not prototypes — using Azure AI services, with CI/CD pipelines for AI endpoints.

Full Stack .NET Developer — Various Companies, Turkey (05/2014 — 11/2018)
Delivered and maintained full-stack .NET systems for clients in the automotive and industrial sectors, including occupational health & safety and training-tracking platforms.

Skills

AI Workflow Automation (n8n), AI Agents & LLM Integration, Azure & Azure AI, Python, C# .NET, API & System Integration, Self-Hosted n8n Deployment, IoT & Embedded Systems, Data Transformation Pipelines, Docker & Kubernetes, Terraform & IaC, CI/CD Pipelines, Solution Architecture, SQL

Articles

The Engineer's Private Cloud, Part 2: Self-Hosting Your Own Photos with Ente and Backblaze B2

Building a self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted photo backup system with Ente Photos and Backblaze B2 object storage.

The Engineer's Private Cloud: Passwords, Photos, Files and More — Hosted on Docker

Reclaiming control of my personal data by self-hosting a private cloud on Docker, Coolify, and Vaultwarden.

Let's Talk

Book a free 20-minute automation audit: tell me about one manual process in your business, and I'll tell you honestly whether it's worth automating — and what it would take.

me@birtan.dev