About Ege Chelebi

I'm Ege. I work as an AI engineer at Refik Anadol Studio, and I love contributing to the open source products on the side. Before that I shipped stealth fintech at Etrapay / Ahlatcı Holding, consulted for Anadolu Ajansı. In the past I founded companies providing E2E blockchain and software products for B2B clients in Miami, Dubai, and Istanbul.

I studied CS at Medipol, finished the bachelor's in 2024 and started the master's the same year. I speak 🇬🇧 🇹🇷 🇦🇿 🇷🇺.

Work

AI Engineer · Refik Anadol Studio

Media arts and AI studio pioneering generative AI and data-driven artworks.

AIGenerativeMedia Arts

Founding Engineer · Ahlatcı Holding

Stealth fintech company project.

React NativeExpoPythonFintech

Consultant · Anadolu Ajansı

AI-driven system designs and integrations.

AISystem DesignConsulting

Developer · Etrapay (acquired)

Next-gen layer 1 blockchain for instant, zero-fee global payments.

Full-stackFintechPayments

Fellowships

Fellow & Alumni · Türkiye Girişimcilik Vakfı

Turkiye Entrepreneurship Foundation Fellow & Alumni

Incubation · sabah.lab / sabah.hub · Baku

The biggest startup acceleration program in Azerbaijan.

Awards

AA Media Hackathon · Top 10

One of 2 projects acquired out of 133 teams.

ReFi Hackathon · 3rd place

Akbank x Avalanche hackathon, 19 teams.

AÇIKHACK Blockchain · 1st place

Blockchain, NFT, metaverse hackathon, 41 teams.

Avalanche Hacks · 2nd place

Blockchain gaming track, Istanbul.

Teknofest · Finalist

Fighting UAVs, Medipol Autonomous Vehicles.

Education

MSc, CS · Medipol University

Hardware-backed credential custody for LLM coding agents.

BSc, CS · Medipol University

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) for government identity systems.