Dora Akbulut

Engineer in London with 4 years of consumer and business products, and the designer on most of them. I care about things: when I like something, I can tell why at once. When I do not, I sit with it and find out why. When I have an idea, I bring it to life fast. I use AI agents every day in my workflow and in production, and I know when not to trust them.

Projects

Mania

Odin, raylib · game · in progress · playable below, sound on with M

A 2D game with no engine underneath. The entity system, the camera, the level editor, and the frame-rate independence are all hand-written. I ported it from a 2025 prototype to Odin and raylib, then added mechanics and levels. Every level that exists today is in this build.

loading · A/D move, space jumps, M for sound
Dikte on an iPhone

Dikte

Swift, SwiftUI · Mac and iOS · AI

A dictation app for Mac and iOS. It syncs the clipboard between the two over iCloud. On iOS it adds a custom keyboard with special actions for typing on a phone.

Quickers on an iPhone

Quickers

mobile · WhatsApp bot · AI

A sticker app with no advertisements. Send a photo or a video to the WhatsApp bot and it returns a sticker. It also has a share sheet and quick media editing.

Next One on an iPhone

Next One

Swift, SwiftUI · iOS

A todo app that shows one task at a time. It gives you the current task and the one after it, never a list. It syncs over iCloud.

Coolwave

Expo, React Native · Laravel API · iOS

A place finder that searches by purpose instead of by category: a toilet that stocks period products, or a cafe with air conditioning to work from.

Work

  1. 2026 to now
    ooba · Founder in Residence
    Conducted research on connection science and social health, designed a mobile app around it and brought it to life as the sole technical person on the team. Used AI agents heavily for fast iteration: deep research, mentor personas for reviewing design and code, parallel sessions on several worktrees, and a tight CI.PostgreSQL, Laravel, React Native, LLM pipelines
  2. 2025 to 2026
    meti-bills · Software Engineer, freelance
    Sole developer on meti-bills: e-invoicing on the Peppol network for C&D Compta, a Belgian accountancy practice, serving 133 Belgian businesses with 12,300 processed documents.Go, PostgreSQL, React, React Native
  3. 2023
    meti-box · Software Engineer, freelance
    Built meti-box first: a document workspace for the same accountant and 173 clients. Delivered the first version into daily use in 7 weeks. The same client returned to commission meti-bills.Laravel, Flutter
  4. 2023 to 2025
    Net Koruma · Software Engineer
    Anti-phishing for Garanti, Ziraat, Denizbank, Yapı Kredi, QNB, Fibabanka, Kuveyt Türk, BKM, and Turkcell. Built monitors that detect phishing: an Android automation that scrolls Instagram and reads the advertisements with OCR, a detector for Facebook Marketplace, and a keyword monitor on X. Implemented websocket servers and automated takedown closure processes.PHP, Laravel, MySQL
  5. 2022 to 2023
    Upcarta · Mobile Lead and Co-founder
    Built the Flutter app for an idealistic social network: recommendations of people you already follow and trust are the highest signal for the quality and relevance of content you are looking for. Trained 4 fellow students to build it in Flutter and they worked with me on 3 later projects.Flutter, Dart
  6. 2022
    University of Kent · Visiting Researcher
    Institute of Cyber Security for Society. Offered a fully funded PhD position there.

Writing

Mania devlog

A game in Odin on raylib with no engine underneath, built in sessions.

Philosophy

Two term papers from Sabancı University.

Learning Rust

A beginner's log from 2023: channels, then an actor model.

Flutter

Developer

Tricks