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LeadShark
Automates LinkedIn lead magnets into DMs, replies, and follow-up.
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Apex
Governed LinkedIn MCP for AI agents.
apex.new
Intervals
Calm calendar layer.
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MCP Explorer
MCP servers worth giving an agent.
mcpexplorer.com
Brain Design
Coming soon.
braindesign.ai
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Building systems that turn audience attention into warm pipeline.
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Notes on LeadShark, lead magnets, and building from Estonia.

About

Founder of LeadShark, software that automates LinkedIn lead magnets into DMs, replies, and follow-up.

LeadShark has grown to 500+ users and $250K+ ARR in ~2 years. APEX is the operator layer around LeadShark: loadouts, campaign views, and live network stats. Brain Design is coming soon.

leadshark.io · apex.new/loadouts · LeadShark Live Stats: 2.4M+ DMs sent

Experience

Founder
LeadShark
May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos
Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia · Remote
Founder of LeadShark. LeadShark helps founders publish LinkedIn lead magnets, send relevant DMs, track replies, and keep follow-up organized. Scaled to 500+ users and $250K+ ARR in ~2 years.
LeadShark Live Stats · 2.4M+ DMs sent ↗
Product Lead
MagicPort
Jan 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos
Product Manager
ARDIC
Mar 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos
Ran a joint-development project in partnership with a Colorado-based startup.
Product Lead
hayli
Mar 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos
Istanbul, Turkey
Led a product team of 5, working on building an NFT marketplace (mobile app) with social features such as voice & video communication.
Product Manager
24 Saatte İş
Sep 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos
Istanbul, Turkey
• Shipped new features on mobile. • Helped design & build the company's web-platform. • Facilitated the in-housing & the initial formation of the Scrum team. • Introduced Agile as a common practice within the company.
CEO for One Month (Türkiye)
The Adecco Group
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos
Istanbul, Turkey
• Selected amongst 6,000+ applicants for this global program. • Worked alongside the group CEO for a month. • Built a global innovation project proposal.
Global Technology Innovation & Product Manager Intern
Anheuser-Busch InBev
Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos
San Francisco Bay Area
Designed & built an on-site Computer Vision system at Fairfield, CA. Essentially an IIoT device: • Detects surface-level packaging damages (improving upon existing PQC checks). • Allows high-speed image gathering to our cloud database through remote access. • Oversaw the budget & implementation of custom Deep Learning models — U-Net with ResNet-34 backbone and Dice loss — for can dent/scratch/abrasion detection.
Startup Studio Grader
Cornell Tech
Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 5 mos
Greater New York City Area
• Helped fellow students with their class work. • Oversaw the submissions & presentation of over 100 startup pitch decks. • (Cornell Tech Startup Studio, led by David Tisch — a capstone course where students start their own companies.)
Head Teacher
Code Camp
Mar 2017 – Jul 2017 · 5 mos
Sydney, Australia
Taught pre-K through 12-year-olds big CS concepts (for-loops, functions) using gamification and drama; also helped them build their own 2D platformer video game.
Student Transition Programs Coordinator
Rollins College
Dec 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo
Florida, United States
• Led a group of Peer Mentors. • Facilitated their initial & continuous training. • Helped facilitate the orientation for first-year students and their transition to Rollins College.

Education

Cornell University
Master of Science — MS, Information Systems
2018 – 2019
Cornell Tech
Technion-Cornell Dual Master's Degree, Connective Media
Aug 2018 – Oct 2019
Rollins College
Baccalaureus Artium Honoris — Computer Science (major), Communication Studies (minor)
2014 – 2018
Product School
Product Lead Certificate
Jul 2021 – Sep 2021
Oviedo High School
High School — Exchange Student
2013 – 2014
Oviedo, FL

Honors & awards

Dean's Scholarship
Rollins College
Donald J. Cram Scholarship
Rollins College
President's List
Rollins College
Honorable Mention & 2nd Place
Tepe Savunma Hackathon 2018

Licenses & certifications

Jira Jedi
Atlassian
Product Leader Certificate
Product School
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Skills

Leadership Social Media Entrepreneurship Product Management Go-to-Market Lead Generation

Languages

TurkishNative or Bilingual
EnglishFull Professional
GermanLimited Working

Interests

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LeadShark
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Brain Design
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Cornell Tech
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Anheuser-Busch InBev
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Smart contracts for the Fiat Lux carbon-offset NFT. Audited, on-chain retirement flow.
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Cornell-CS5670-2019 Public
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Computer Vision · Cornell CS5670 · Spring 2019
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Student–faculty collaborative research program, Rollins College 2016. Constraint-solving for course scheduling · PATAT'16 proceedings.
Python ★ 4
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