Mustafa Ekrem KENTER

Leading the Digital Lab, Turkish Technology's emerging-technology research team: scouting new technologies, proving them fast, and graduating them into production for Turkish Airlines and beyond.

• Built and shipped one of the world's first enterprise MCP platforms, connecting airline core services (flight search, booking details, baggage tracking, promotions, city guides) to AI assistants — live in production.
• Made Turkish Airlines one of the first airlines in the world available inside both ChatGPT and Claude, and the first airline in Anthropic's Claude connector directory.
• Pioneered chat-native UI — interactive, branded cards rendered inside AI assistant conversations via MCP Apps.
• One backend, one tool spec, every major AI agent — the platform is built once on open MCP, ready for any airline.

• Advised founders and product teams on architecture, stack selection, and development process.
• Built full-stack applications end to end — React/Next.js, Node.js, serverless AWS.
• Helped teams take LLM-powered features from demo to production.

No-code tool for e-commerce conversion, popups, and visitor engagement.

• Defined and communicated long-term technical vision with founders and investors.
• Built and led a team of 7 developers; established coding standards and review culture.
• Shipped LiveChatAI, an LLM support product, in under two months (Next.js, Neon Postgres, LangChain).

Text-marketing automation for Shopify brands ("Mailchimp × Slack for SMS").

• Led a team of 5 developers while contributing hands-on, focused on backend and infrastructure (AWS).

• Built Boti, Turkish Airlines' chatbot, on Dialogflow with a serverless AWS backend (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, TypeScript) — live on WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, and BiP.
• Focus on AI/ML within the Digital Innovation department.

• Led the cloud migration of Turkish Airlines' mobile application to AWS.
• Built a generic push-notification API for internal use — integration time cut from days to minutes.
• Team lead and scrum master for the Agile Mobile Solutions department.

• One of 100 companies founded with a government fund, selected from 1,000+ applicants.
• Built Testlance, a crowd-sourced mobile-app-testing platform; finalist in 3 contests, won 2 nationwide entrepreneurial contests.
• Shipped 10+ client and product apps — Flutter, React, Node.js, serverless on AWS & Google Cloud.

• Architected software for the Integrated Financial Intelligence System of Turkey's Financial Investigation Unit.
• Built an online anti-money-laundering system that halved the time to issue notices.
• Built a Samsung Smart TV app for real-time server-health monitoring.

• Built a distributed ad engine querying 20+ networks, placing ads within 175ms at 150M+ requests/day.
• Ran a Lucene-based content search engine serving 50M+ requests/day.

• Designed a mobile transaction-processing and billing API that cut integration effort by 90%.