Hello,

This is Birtan

I make manual work disappear

About Me

I help businesses in saving the times of their teams. I'm a pragmatic system thinker — I design and build AI-powered automations 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 bring a holistic view to every engagement. Twelve years as an enterprise software engineer and tech lead taught me that automation lives or dies on the seams — between APIs, databases, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. I've built cloud-native systems on Azure for finance, legal tech, and industry, including AI-powered document intelligence that ran in production, not in a demo. With the rise of LLMs, I now apply that same systems-level thinking to n8n workflows and AI agents — increasing process efficiency and cutting costs by integrating AI where it actually makes a difference.

My roots are in the physical world. I hold a physics degree from METU, I built my own CNC machine from scratch (design, CAD, assembly), 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.

Away from the keyboard I am usually trekking, 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, AI Agents & LLM Integration, Azure Cloud, 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