GÖKHAN TURHAN Full-stack builder & solopreneur Full-stack builder and solopreneur — one person, a fleet of agents. Ships agent-native products end to end (venue, payment rail, benchmark, open standard, security program) across fintech infrastructure, AI-native tooling, and tokenized markets — live, in production, taking real machine payments. CONTACT Location: İstanbul, Türkiye Email: contact@gokhan.vc (mailto:contact@gokhan.vc) Website: gokhan.vc (https://gokhan.vc/) Website: gokhanturhan.com (https://gokhanturhan.com/) Website: numetal.xyz (https://numetal.xyz/) LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan (https://linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan) X: x.com/goekhan (https://x.com/goekhan) GitHub: github.com/avalidurl (https://github.com/avalidurl) GitHub (gokhan-vc): github.com/gokhan-vc (https://github.com/gokhan-vc) Substack: gokhan.substack.com (https://gokhan.substack.com/) PROFILE Growth and business development operator building engines that compound distribution, conversion, and revenue — performance marketing, partnerships, CRM orchestration, and experimentation, from strategy to measurable outcome. Founder-technologist shipping full-stack apps end to end — architecture, code, deployment, distribution — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals, from smart contracts to landing pages. AI-native execution with memetic engineering: message architecture, platform-native storytelling, feedback-scaled campaigns. Taste in art, classical and jazz music, a serious home-chef practice, a consistent training discipline. EXPERIENCE Founder & CTO — Gökhan Ventures, İstanbul 2024 – Present • Founder and sole technologist — chief technical officer, developer, coder, and bootstrapper in one, shipping the entire stack from smart contract to landing page. • Gökhan Ventures is a venture research studio into AGI and human coexistence, incubating products at the seam of AI, crypto, and startups. • Ship full-stack apps end-to-end — architecture, code, deployment, and growth — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals. Founder — Numetal, İstanbul 2026 – Present • Numetal is the Agent Accelerator Studio & Bureau within Gökhan Ventures — chain-agnostic, building and backing autonomous agents under one brand and one token ($NUMETAL). • Lead architect, developer, and operator across product, protocol, and distribution — "we ship machines that ship themselves." Head of Growth & Marketing — Kingpost.io + Quake Cash Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 • Led growth strategy across a hybrid fintech product spanning custodial RWA issuance and DeFi-native perpetual markets. • Built GTM positioning, CRM pipelines, partnership funnels, and content-driven acquisition using AI-assisted workflows. • Operated across product, BD, marketing, and social media, connective tissue between technical teams and market execution. • Prototyped internal tools, landing pages, and documentation. Independent Researcher & Advisor — Freelance, İstanbul Jan 2020 – Oct 2024 • Published research on DeFi protocol mechanics, tokenization frameworks, and distributed systems governance. • Advisory engagements across fintech and deep-tech verticals on product positioning, org design, and market entry. • Technical copywriting, documentation, and newsletter production for protocol and infrastructure clients. Content Specialist & Client Success — GoDaddy Türkiye (via Artı İletişim) & MCAN Health, İstanbul 2019 – 2020 • Content strategy, copywriting, and customer success across health tourism and domain services markets. NGO Volunteer & Contributor — Helsinki Citizens' Assembly, İstanbul 2009 – 2017 • Long-term civic engagement in human rights advocacy, cross-cultural dialogue, and community organizing. English Language Instructor — İstanbul Nişantaşı Üniversitesi & Çanakkale 18 Mart Üniversitesi 2013 – 2016 • University-level EFL/ESL instruction; curriculum development and cross-cultural communication. EDUCATION M.A. Comparative Literature — Top of Class — İstanbul Bilgi University (2014–2017) Thesis: "The Importance and Function of Media Laboratories for the Preservation of Works of Digital and Electronic Literature" Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EgZE838AAAAJ&citation_for_view=EgZE838AAAAJ:W7OEmFMy1HYC B.A. American Culture & Literature — Bahçeşehir University (2006–2012) PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS Published author and exhibited conceptual artist. "On the Hyperstitional Implications of Memes as Digital Objects in Turkey" SKILLS [Agents & orchestration] - Multi-agent fleets: orchestrator + subagent patterns, drop-in skills, scheduled and autonomous runs - MCP — building and shipping servers, clients, and agent skills - Agent-to-agent protocols: A2A negotiation, agent identity (ERC-8004 · DID · VC) - Computer-use, browser automation, and headless verification loops [Agentic payments] - x402 · HTTP 402 · MPP — machine-to-machine settlement, running in production (USDC on Base) - Paid agent surfaces: metered APIs, per-call pricing, payment-gated MCP and skills - Stablecoin rails, treasury design, and fee-flow mechanics for agent economies [AI · LLM · AGI infrastructure] - Model routing and inference economics — token markets, cost/latency arbitrage across providers - Evals and benchmarks — designing and operating public leaderboards - Embeddings, retrieval, vector search; context and memory architecture for agents - Tool-agnostic across the stack — coding agents, IDEs, model APIs, local inference; new tools absorbed the week they ship [Quantitative & protocol research] - Onchain analytics and token-flow forensics — SQL over chain data, explorer archaeology - Market microstructure: AMMs, auction mechanisms, prediction markets, fee mechanics - Open-standards authorship and API/spec design (OpenAPI, CC-licensed schemas) [Security & hardening] - Red-teaming agent systems: prompt injection, tool abuse, egress control - Product security programs: audits, fuzzing, key hygiene, least-privilege operations [Web design · UX · UI] - End-to-end front-of-house: design system → code → deploy, no handoffs - Typography-first, monochrome design systems; print-grade information design [Fintech domain] - RWA Tokenization (Custodial & Non-Custodial) - Perpetuals · AMMs · Stablecoins - Hybrid Fintech Architecture [Stack] - Solidity · Rust · Python · TypeScript — read, review, pair; the fleet types, I sign off - EVM · SVM · BTC Core — from bytecode to block data - Edge-first: the whole estate runs on Cloudflare Workers, DNS to deploy [Studio practice] - Identity, motion, and sound produced in-house — brand system to shipped film to score - Exhibited conceptual artist; the taste is load-bearing [Growth engine] - The full revenue loop, solo: CRM, pipeline, analytics, retention — agent-orchestrated, portable to whatever stack is already paid for - Instrumentation before intuition: events and funnels wired at launch, not after - Knowledge is plumbed, not stored — a working memex feeds the fleet [Distribution] - Every rail that moves attention: mainstream, decentralized, alt, and agent-only networks - Memetic engineering — message architecture, platform-native storytelling, feedback-scaled - Technical prose that ships product: docs, specs, dispatches, newsletters — search-optimized without smelling of it LANGUAGES Turkish: Native English: IELTS 8/9 Japanese: Elementary PDF: https://gokhanturhan.com/cv/Gokhan_Turhan_CV.pdf Last updated: 2026-07-30