Ali Murat
Umutlu

Engineer. Founder. Catalyst.

Istanbul, Türkiye

Currently

Building Hassar.Tech — AI tools for daily life, safe media for children, and education infrastructure for communities recovering from war.

Speaking & Writing

UN Vienna AIFOD Forum

Presented at the UN AI for Development forum in Vienna on leveraging AI to bridge the digital divide in underserved regions — covering multilingual agents, offline-first architectures, and community-owned data models.

Conference2024

Building AI-First Products

A candid breakdown of what it actually takes to ship AI products in 2024 — pitfalls of over-engineering, the importance of opinionated defaults, and lessons learned building Muum AI from zero to production.

Article2024

The Entrepreneur's Stack

An opinionated guide to technology choices for early-stage founders: when to reach for managed services, how to design for future scale without premature abstraction, and the hidden cost of switching costs.

Article2023

Experience

2024 — Present

Hassar.tech · Istanbul

Founder & CEO

Building a bootstrapped AI technology ecosystem from Istanbul serving the North American market. Leads product strategy, system architecture, and a remote technical team across seven product domains.

ArchitectureAI/MLTeam LeadershipProduct Strategy

2024

Muum AI Labs · London

AI Solutions Architect

End-to-end cloud architecture for AI-driven autonomous systems. Led pre-sales technical scoping, translated business KPIs into architecture blueprints, and achieved 40% reduction in cloud infrastructure spend.

AWSGCPServerlessPre-Sales

2021 — 2024

Muum AI Labs · Istanbul

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Production SPAs serving 18M+ users with sub-1s P95 load times. Designed modular API and microservices architecture integrating AWS Lambda and GraphQL. Raised team velocity by 20% through TypeScript training programs.

ReactNext.jsGraphQLAWS Lambda

2022 — 2023

Afiniti

Development Team Lead

Directed frontend team on a large-scale AI analytics platform. Reduced deployment time by 20% through design review governance and architecture validation processes.

Team LeadAI AnalyticsArchitecture Review

2019 — 2020

Ericsson

Senior Full-Stack Developer

Mission-critical portals with 99.99% uptime. Designed distributed API architecture and implemented GDPR-compliant data flows at telecom scale.

99.99% UptimeDistributed SystemsGDPR

16+ years and counting

“I build technology that serves humanity. Every line of code is an act of my worship.”

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Available for architecture consulting, AI integration projects, and strategic partnerships.

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Istanbul, Türkiye