Hello,

This is Birtan

I make manual work disappear

About Me

With the power of AI and LLMs, I take the repetitive work off your teams plate. 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 data into reports.

I bring a holistic view to every engagement. 12 years as an enterprise software engineer and tech lead taught me that automation lives on the seams, between APIs, databases, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. I've built cloud-native systems on Azure for finance, legal tech, and education, including AI-powered document intelligence for Due Dilligence. With the rise of LLMs, I now apply that same systems-level thinking to AI workflows and agents, increasing process efficiency and cutting costs by integrating AI where it actually makes a difference.

Away from the keyboard I'm a maker at heart: I designed and built my own CNC machine from scratch, and I'm rarely far from an embedded-systems project. You'll otherwise find me trekking, on the padel court, or volunteering at my local repair café. Building sustainable solutions and fixing things instead of replacing them is a philosophy I have and I bring it to my work.

What I Offer

Portfolio

Predictive Maintenance Solution

The Engineer's Private Cloud

CNC Machine

Curriculum Vitae

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