Summary
Mustafa Akcanca is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience delivering scalable systems for startups and Silicon Valley–level teams, currently shaping streaming and Web3 infrastructure at Tune.FM. Based in Istanbul, he led content delivery improvements, built DRM-enabled video pipelines, and spearheaded recommender systems using ElasticSearch and Redis, boosting page load speeds. He has broadened AI and ethics work across Turing.com and OpenAI, and he co-founded Takyon Ai, where he led projects from CoronApp to a privacy-preserving data storage patent and raised funding for a five-person team. Outside software, he designs and builds UAVs and hardware, reflecting a hands-on mindset. An avid humanitarian coder, his GitHub bio—"Helping humanity within reality"—echoes through his space-tech ventures, including Ancha Space Technologies' rover challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Student MSc., Istanbul, Student MSc., Istanbul at 42
Master of Science - MSc, Forensic Sciences, Master of Science - MSc, Forensic Sciences at Üsküdar Üniversitesi
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Honors, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.45 GPA, Honors at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
English, Turkish, laz