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LeadShark
Automates LinkedIn lead magnets into DMs, replies, and follow-up.
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Pesky
Monitors your competitors every day on autopilot.
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Intervals
Calm calendar layer.
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MCP Explorer
MCP servers worth giving an agent.
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Apex
The agent layer for LinkedIn GTM.
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Person intelligence for better outreach.
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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. Pesky monitors competitors every day on autopilot.

leadshark.io · pesky.ai · leadmagnet.club

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 · 2.6M+ 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
312 followers
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Pesky
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Cornell Tech
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Anheuser-Busch InBev
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Notebook 51
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EasyCarbon/FiatLuxContracts Public
Smart contracts for the Fiat Lux carbon-offset NFT. Audited, on-chain retirement flow.
Solidity ★ 24 ⑂ 6
Cornell-CS5670-2019 Public
Forked from wz337/Cornell-CS5670-2019
Computer Vision · Cornell CS5670 · Spring 2019
Jupyter Notebook ★ 3
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Solidity ★ 11
Course_Timetabling_Research Public
Student–faculty collaborative research program, Rollins College 2016. Constraint-solving for course scheduling · PATAT'16 proceedings.
Python ★ 4
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Generating inbound leads with lead magnets — Part 2
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LeadShark Product Updates ✨ MAY 2025
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LeadShark FAQ — the big one
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Why I built LeadShark — 3 minute founder story
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hopefully this helps — demo teaser
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The tool for talking — short pitch
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Lead Magnet Links — everything they do
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ClubAI — deep dive into the AI writer
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Ruzgar working with classmates at Cornell Tech, featured by The New York Times in 2019
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what for?
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is this real?
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