Leadership

G Vuckovic

CCO

Operations leader with deep expertise in scaling B2B SaaS companies. Led go-to-market strategy for multiple fintech startups. Drives TAZI global expansion and partner ecosystem.

Zehra Cataltepe, Ph.D.

CEO & Co-Founder

AI researcher and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience in machine learning. Previously led AI research at Istanbul Technical University. Pioneered explainable AI for financial services.

TAZI Team

TAZI AI

Tayfun Cataltepe, Ph.D.

GM EMEA-TR

Technology executive and board member with 30+ years bridging R&D and C-level leadership across telecommunications (AT&T, Turkcell, Türk Telekom). Leads TAZI's business development and sales across the EMEA region. Holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA.

Kadir Malak

Senior Software Engineer

Software engineer with 15+ years of experience, leading development of TAZI's ML Engine—from ML library integration and system architecture to custom algorithms. Also contributes to DevOps, deployment across customer environments, and testing.

Talha Emirhan Boyraz

Frontend Software Engineer

Frontend engineer specializing in scalable, high-performance interfaces for enterprise AI. Over four years at TAZI, he has shaped the frontend architecture and built advanced data-visualization dashboards that turn complex ML functionality into clean, usable interfaces.

Gökcem Kamışlı

AI Engineer

AI engineer at TAZI working on AI agents, skills, and the optimization of agent performance. He brings a strong research background in robust and adaptive machine learning—spanning concept drift, adversarial robustness, and reinforcement learning—developed across academic labs and industry roles. Holds a B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University and is pursuing an M.S. at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Mazlum Geçgil

Software Engineer

Software engineer focused on the development, deployment, and maintenance of TAZI's enterprise AI platform. He helps customers run AI solutions reliably in production, bridging enterprise software practices with modern AI platforms.

Muhammed Rıza Kaynak

Software Developer

Software developer contributing to backend engineering, data pipelines, and AI model deployment. Having joined TAZI as a high-school intern and grown into an engineer, he builds Scala-based services and integrates ONNX and LLM components for platform reliability.

Ayşe Sena Açıkalın

AI Engineer

Industrial Engineering graduate (METU) working on data preparation, analysis, and machine learning workflows. She builds dashboards, structures datasets, and contributes to algorithmic improvements that turn data into business decisions.

Eda Selin Küçükkara

AI Engineer

AI engineer and senior undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. She develops AI-driven solutions across NLP, computer vision, and applied machine learning, pairing academic rigor with hands-on enterprise experience.

Sarp Koçak

AI Engineer

Data scientist building machine learning solutions and production-grade data science pipelines. He works end-to-end—from feature engineering and model development to monitoring—translating business needs into measurable ML outcomes.

Gülgün Bülbül

Office Support & Executive Assistant

Helps with office tasks from pre-accounting to HR, solves problems, and makes the office into a home for all of us.

Tanju Cataltepe, Ph.D.

CTO & Co-Founder

Engineering leader specializing in distributed systems and AI infrastructure. Architected TAZI's on-premises deployment framework and real-time agent processing engine.