daktas.dev

Dogukan Aktas

Senior Full Stack Developer - Applied AI

Senior Full Stack Developer with a strong frontend focus and 5+ years across SaaS, ERP, e-commerce and digital banking. I build LLM-powered products end to end and run Solidblank, a UK-based studio shipping AI-powered mobile and web apps.

↓ CV - Türkçe↓ CV - English
Experience

  1. Solidblank ↗

    11/2024 - Present

    Senior Full Stack Developer & Founder · London, UK

    Digital product studio building AI-powered mobile and web products. As the sole engineer I build and ship Zakkum and Orin end to end, from the React Native client to the serverless backend, subscriptions and CI/CD.

  2. Akinon

    04/2022 - 10/2024

    Frontend Developer · Istanbul, Turkey

    Led the frontend team for 9 months, raised unit test coverage from 5% to 80% and cut production defects by roughly 25%. Built Akinon Instore modules used by 30 brands including Samsung, GAP and Lacoste.

  3. GAIA

    04/2021 - 04/2022

    Frontend Developer · Istanbul, Turkey

    Built Money Transfer modules for Digital Commerce Bank (Canada), refactored 400+ legacy components and led the frontend team for 6 months.

  4. Potanet

    11/2020 - 04/2021

    Frontend Developer · Istanbul, Turkey

    Sole frontend developer for the Potanet ERP panel. Built the e-Invoice MVP from scratch and delivered it 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

Skills

AI / LLM

LLM IntegrationPrompt EngineeringRAGLangChainEmbeddings & Vector SearchTool CallingAI AgentsMCPStreaming (SSE)OCR & VisionLLM EvaluationClaude CodeCodexCursor

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptVue.jsReduxZustandTanStack QueryZodHTML5CSS3PWAWebpackVite

UI & Styling

Tailwind CSSshadcn/uiMaterial UIAnt DesignBootstrapSASS/SCSSLESSFigma

Mobile

React NativeExpoReanimatedRevenueCatApp Store Release

Backend

Node.jsExpress.jsPythonDenoGraphQLSupabaseAppwriteMongoDB

Testing & DevOps

JestVitestReact Testing LibraryCypressPlaywrightGitHub ActionsVercelSentry
Projects

Zakkum

iOS app · Solidblank

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Turns a chat screenshot into reply suggestions using OCR and an LLM. Available in 22 languages with subscriptions, a referral system and a serverless backend built on edge functions.

React NativeExpoTypeScriptSupabaseDenoRevenueCat

zakkum.app →

Orin

iOS app · Solidblank

↗

AI-powered relationship and compatibility astrology app. It computes real birth charts from astronomical data and explains them through an AI astrologer grounded in the user's own chart.

React NativeExpoSkiaAppwriteEAS HostingZod

orin.thesolidblank.com →

Sourcive

Web app · Portfolio project

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AI-powered streaming chat built to demonstrate real-time LLM integration, provider-agnostic architecture, and modern frontend engineering.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSSupabaseGroqOpenRouter

sourcive.daktas.dev →