Gökhan Turhan

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.

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Contact §0

• Location: İstanbul, Türkiye
• Email: contact@gokhan.vc
• Website: gokhan.vc
• Website: gokhanturhan.com
• Website: numetal.xyz
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/goekhanturhan
• X: x.com/goekhan
• GitHub: github.com/avalidurl
• GitHub (gokhan-vc): github.com/gokhan-vc
• Substack: gokhan.substack.com

Profile §1

Growth and business development operator focused on building growth engines that compound distribution, conversion, and revenue. I run end-to-end systems across performance marketing, partnership development, CRM orchestration, and experimentation to move quickly from strategy to measurable outcomes.

As a founder-technologist I ship full-stack apps end-to-end — architecture, code, deployment, and distribution — across AI, crypto, and startup verticals, from smart contracts to landing pages.

My operating model blends AI-native execution with channel-specific creative, analytics instrumentation, and rapid iteration loops across paid, owned, and earned media. I specialize in memetic viral social engineering: message architecture, platform-native storytelling, and feedback-driven campaign scaling that improves both reach and unit economics.

I am proactive by default, with taste in art, classical and jazz music, a serious home-chef practice, and a consistent training-and-sports discipline.

Experience §2

Education §3

• 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)
• B.A. American Culture & Literature, Bahçeşehir University — 2006–2012

Publications & exhibitions §4

• Published author and exhibited conceptual artist.
• "On the Hyperstitional Implications of Memes as Digital Objects in Turkey"

Skills & tooling §5

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
• TradingView · PineScript

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 §6

• Turkish: Native
• English: IELTS 8/9
• Japanese: Elementary