Resume

Gökberk Dergin

Technology Director | Hands-on Engineering Leader | AI & Product Development

I turn mechatronics, electronics, and software into working products.

I am a Technology Director and hands-on engineering leader at Sharpcake. I coordinate a six-person engineering team and shape architecture for web, mobile, SaaS, AI, and connected-device products. Previously, I was CTO at Gate Plus from 2023 to 2026.

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Experience

Nov 2024 – Present

Technology Director

Sharpcake

  • Build software across enterprise digital experiences, AI campaigns, and web and mobile products.
  • Coordinate planning and delivery for a six-person engineering team, aligning work with product, design, and client teams.
  • Shape architecture across frontend, backend, AI services, and third-party integrations while staying close to implementation.
  • Built and delivered a browser-based AI campaign with the project team; it recorded 200,000+ visitors and 1 million+ interactions in its first 48 hours.

Oct 2023 – 2026

Chief Technology Officer

Gate Plus

  • Designed the connected retail product across cabinet hardware, edge devices, mobile apps, APIs, payments, and operations.
  • Connected Raspberry Pi shelf devices, cameras and sensors, YOLO-based recognition, and Socket.io messaging to carry cabinet events into the kiosk and mobile checkout flow.
  • Reached 45 workplace locations and processed more than 100,000 orders.

Oct 2021 – Sep 2023

Software Engineer

Wunder Innovation Studio

  • Built web and mobile features for insurance and financial products, including work on the Allianz mobile application.
  • Contributed to internal AI and automation initiatives with multidisciplinary product teams.

Aug 2021 – Oct 2021

Software Engineer

Astaş Juki

  • Worked on Photobooth, a smart mannequin photo studio, including device software, camera control, and interactive flows.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021

Software Engineer

Selfmetric

  • Developed device software, camera integrations, user flows, and backend connectivity for the Fotomatik photo kiosk.

Selected work

Gate+ Smart Retail

Connected office retail with computer vision, mobile access, and automated checkout.

Pegasus Galeri

A generative AI experience turning travelers’ photos into art-inspired keepsakes.

Bu Şarkı Anneme

A personalized AI song experience that generated around 40,000 songs for Mother’s Day.

Bu Forma Fenerbahçe’den Yapıldı

A campaign Easter egg connected to a secure, database-backed one-time voucher flow.

TrustCookie

Consent management SaaS with automated cookie and tracker scanning.

iOS Product Portfolio

Eight published iOS products across AI, health, wellbeing, and business workflows.

Core skills

Software development and team management

  • Hands-on development
  • Engineering team management
  • System architecture
  • Delivery planning

Web and mobile

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Swift
  • Expo
  • React Native

AI and computer vision

  • LLM products
  • OpenAI API
  • Python
  • YOLO
  • Image processing

Connected systems

  • Raspberry Pi
  • IoT
  • Cameras and sensors
  • Embedded integrations

Backend and data

  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • REST and realtime APIs
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • Firebase

Infrastructure and delivery

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • CI/CD
  • Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Bahçeşehir University

2016 – 2021

Languages

  • Turkish · Native
  • English · Advanced