Serhat Akalın

Lead Software Engineer

Mobile Lead @ Turkcell · Previously Sr. iOS Developer @ Lyrebird Studio

About

I've spent 10+ years building mobile apps that people use all over the world, and today I lead an engineering team while still writing code every day. Most of my focus is on the technical side: app architecture, performance, and keeping things stable as they scale to millions of users.

Built and scaled apps used by 200M+ people that generated $15M+ in revenue.
Shipped apps that climbed to the top of the U.S. App Store and stayed in the top 10 of their categories for a long time.
Worked on apps whose global downloads helped the publisher earn a 2023 Sensor Tower Top Publisher Award, ranking #7 among the Top 30 EMEA-headquartered publishers.
One of the apps I worked on was the 10th most-downloaded app in the world in May 2021.

Lately, most of my spare time goes into exploring agentic AI: getting a feel for how models can plan a task, call tools and APIs, and work through it step by step on their own.

Apps