I live in Yukarıbey, a village on the Kozak Plateau, and work across languages, technology and independent projects.
I studied Japanese, translated manga, worked in drug-safety reporting, then found my way into crypto. It was never a neat career plan. I tend to follow subjects that make me curious, learn fast, and stay long enough to become useful.
These days
What I’m spending time on
LearningUsing AI for personal research and the small products I build for myself.
MakingA documentary channel, a shared-list app and Hatır Defteri, an app for tracking wedding gifts.
LanguagesKeeping my Japanese active through reading, translation and everyday practice.
At homeA pesticide-free garden, fruit trees, saved seeds and the dogs we care for around the village.
Work and projects
A few things I’ve worked on
Published work and independent projects that grew from curiosity.
Translation
Manga translation
Before crypto, I translated manga from Japanese into Turkish. Two series carry my name as translator, and I edited a third:
Kuroko’s Basketball Tadatoshi Fujimaki. Gerekli Şeyler, 2018. Turkish edition
Five Leaves Natsume Ono, 8 volumes. Marmara Çizgi, 2022. Turkish edition
Ajin: Demi-Human Gamon Sakurai. Gerekli Şeyler. Editor of the Turkish edition.
Kuroko’nun Basketbolu, Ajin and Beş Yaprak on my shelf.
Video
If Tomorrow Changed
I am preparing a documentary channel about the consequences of changing one basic condition of the world. The first episode asks what would happen if nobody were hungry tomorrow. English comes first, with Turkish and Japanese audio planned.
The channel’s identity. Same planet. A different tomorrow.
A shared task list I built with React, Supabase and Vercel. It began as a useful tool for two people. I may eventually turn the idea into a more general product called Junto.
An app for recording who gave what at a wedding. In Türkiye, guests pin gold and jewellery on the couple, and families keep a careful list so they can return the kindness one day. Hatır Defteri turns that notebook into a simple app that also works offline. The name means, roughly, a record of goodwill.
Hatır Defteri’s home screen.
Food venture
Peren Açık
A local food venture I support and help build digitally. It is based in the village and shares Aegean food and culinary heritage. I work on the bilingual website and SEO.
Japanese Language and Literature at Ankara University, work at the Turkish-Japanese Foundation, and an exchange term at Soka University in Tokyo.
2018–2021
Japanese drug-safety reporting, manga translation, localization and language data work.
2019–2021
Learned crypto from the ground up while working on Turkish market entry at SnapEx and a 30-region ambassador network at Covalent.
On Upwork: Top Rated Plus, 100% job success and more than 11,000 hours. See my Upwork profile
Life here
The part that happens away from a screen
Late-summer harvest from the garden.With one of the village puppies.
The garden
I moved from Istanbul to Yukarıbey for a life closer to nature. The garden is pesticide-free. I grow apple, cherry and olive trees, save seeds from my harvest and try small experiments, including saffron indoors.
Mostly observation, trial and error, and learning what the local microclimate will allow.
The dogs
İda and Cesi are our dogs. My partner and I also care for street dogs in and around the village. Sometimes that means food. Sometimes it means treatment, shelter or finding a safer place for a mother and her puppies.
It is ordinary, ongoing work, and a real part of our life here.
Languages and tools
What I work with
Turkish is my native language. I work professionally in English and Japanese, with basic German and Persian. I use AI for personal projects, but the useful part is still deciding what problem is worth solving.
Turkish
English C1
Japanese JLPT N2
AI workflows
React
Supabase
Android SDK
SEO
Localization
Contact
Say hello
If something here overlaps with what you are working on, you can reach me by email or LinkedIn.