Mert Gözükara
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Mert Gözükara

Mert
Gözükara

Senior AI engineer at NXT Applied, with seven years of front-end and full-stack work before that. On my own I build products end to end, from the first sketch to the store: three apps on the App Store and three games in production.

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Leipzig, Germany
Apps
Tiny Atlas2026
Calm, hand-drawn worlds for ages 2 to 6, inspired by Montessori.
Live on the App Store↗
Ovyso2026
Apple Health, turned into widgets worth a second look.
Live on the App Store↗
Nyore2026
An AI cultural companion for museums, galleries and landmarks.
Live on the App Store↗
Games
Streetball2026
Fast 3v3 street football in a caged court at sunset, online and deterministic.
Coming soon
LavaSpin2026
Party sumo on a magma orb: shove, dash and out-slide your friends into the lava.
Coming soon
Castleforge (working title)2026
Your buildings fight for you: a lane-pushing auto-battler, 1v1 and 2v2, online or against AI.
Coming soon
Projects
3D Morph Workshop2026
Drop a product photo, get a cinematic clip of liquid forming into the product.
Private
atrant2026
Cited answers from your team's documents, or an honest "I don't know".
Live↗
Experience
2026 — now
Senior AI engineer · NXT Applied
Building AI operators that run finance and back-office workflows in production for client companies, from agent design and evaluation to deployment.
2025 — 2026
AI engineer and product builder · Independent
Freelance AI features for small product teams, then full time on my own products, built and shipped solo: Atrant and Nyore in production, Ovyso and Tiny Atlas on the App Store.
2023 — 2025
Senior AI / full-stack engineer · IU International University
Led the integration of Syntea, IU's AI assistant, into the student platform: streaming chat UIs and OpenAI integration across the journey. Part of the move to myCampus 2.0 for 150,000+ students; built and maintained 10+ micro-frontends.
2021 — 2022
Front-end developer · Easy Apiomat
Replaced paper workflows for a large construction client with a digital platform; helped merge several products into Easy One DM, one document-management platform. Moved from Türkiye to Germany during this role.
2020 — 2021
Front-end developer · Easy Software
Built Workflow Monitor, a BI tool for analysing workflow performance, and a form builder that lets non-technical users make dynamic forms.
2018 — 2020
Front-end developer · Adesso
Data-processing scripts for in-car and factory sensor data in an enterprise IoT product; an internal workflow tool for Philip Morris.
2018
B.B.A. Business Informatics · Marmara University
Erasmus semester at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2017. Languages: Turkish (native), English (C1), German (B1).
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Skills
TypeScriptReactNext.jsReact NativeExpoSwiftSwiftUIPythonFastAPINode.jsPostgreSQLLLMs & RAGUnityC#Three.js
About

I'm Mert, a senior AI engineer at NXT Applied. Outside work I make apps, games and AI products, the whole way through: the idea, the design, the code, the store page and the updates after launch. Before that I spent seven years on product teams: Adesso and Easy Software in Türkiye, Easy Apiomat after moving to Germany, then IU International University, where I led the integration of its AI assistant Syntea into a platform for 150,000 students. Now Nyore, an AI guide for museums and landmarks, Ovyso, Apple Health as Home Screen widgets, and Tiny Atlas, hand-drawn worlds for toddlers, are on the App Store. Atrant answers questions from a team's own documents, with sources. In Unity I'm building Streetball, online 3v3 street football, and LavaSpin, party sumo on a magma orb, and, with a friend, Castleforge, a lane-pushing auto-battler. Away from the desk I photograph streets and cities, mostly at the edges of the day.

Photos

Streets, cities and two very patient models. Shot on Sony and iPhone, edited in Lightroom.

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Contact
Write an e-mailgozukara.mert1@gmail.com