About me

I’m a software engineering leader/researcher passionate about building AI-driven systems and advancing software systems. I hold a PhD, see my publications.

Currently, I lead projects at Blue.Cloud’s GenAI Department, where I guide AI-driven modernization initiatives, helping enterprises in healthcare, banking, and insurance adopt large language models and advanced AI systems. On the open-source side, I’m the founder of gen-atomic, a library for experiment tracking and auto-prompting to streamline evaluation of LLM-based code generation. I also teach an Agentic AI lecture at Istanbul Technical University, where I share practical design patterns and real-world insights from industry with senior students.

Previously, I was the Director of Software Development at Hostamedia, where I led the development of large-scale ML-powered products, including enterprise search and information retrieval systems adopted by leading e-commerce companies. Alongside industry work, I spent over a decade as a lecturer, delivering 75+ courses on test-driven development, design patterns, and enterprise architectures to thousands of developers.

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I’m always open to collaborating on open-source or experimental projects — feel free to reach out if you’d like to join.

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Gokhan Ercan
Istanbul / TURKEY

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The best programmers today will be the next generation of product managers.

Companies should stop this non-technical “Product Owner + Scrum Master” nonsense and start empowering their strongest engineers to own, prioritize, and deliver the backlog.
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Oct 3, 2026
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A pleasure to teach Agentic AI this term at Istanbul Technical University.

We covered 17 agentic patterns: Agentic RAG, ReAct, Memory, Guardrails, multi-agent, Graph-of-Thoughts. Best part: seeing 40 student projects move from "use an LLM" to "design an agent."
Jun 25, 2026
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Dec 12, 2025
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RT @ealpaydin: "Scientists undertake basic research to generate new knowledge with no specific end goal in mind. Applied research is different in that it aims to find solutions to real-world problems." t.co/3zQAg87EUy
Oct 5, 2025
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RT @rohanpaul_ai: "Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary classification.

If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures."

- OpenAI Paper
Sep 6, 2025
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I really liked this OS analogy for LLMs. Strongly encourage watching the full speech by Karpathy. t.co/df0wB6JqnU
Aug 23, 2025