Akif Yaldır

AI Product Designer & Founding Engineer
akifyaldir@gmail.com +44 7387 985843 +90 542 366 1108 yaldir.com github.com/akifyaldir linkedin.com/in/akifyaldir dribbble.com/akifyaldir O-1 visa · Remote / hybrid · US & global · no sponsorship

Selected Impact

  • Outdoorsy — ~30% revenue contribution from redesigned monetization; support dependency down ~20%.
  • PatternAI — Shipped GenAI UX in 2022, before ChatGPT; grew enterprise customers from ~5 to 40.
  • Botanalytics — Conversational analytics adopted by Coca-Cola, eBay, and AstraZeneca teams.
  • Rakam — Redesign cited in the LiveRamp acquisition due diligence (2021).

Experience

VisaEngine · Agenlead

2025 — present
Founder, Designer & Engineer · Remote

Founding AI products end-to-end — strategy, design and production code. VisaEngine: Next.js + Vercel AI SDK, a multi-agent assessment engine with RAG on Supabase. Agenlead: autonomous voice agents (n8n, ElevenLabs, Twilio, GPT-4o-mini) on AWS, with iOS + web.

PatternAI

2022
Product Designer · Remote (US)

GenAI onboarding and adaptive UI for enterprise — chat-based querying of structured data with AI-assisted visualizations, shipped before ChatGPT. Grew enterprise customers from ~5 to 40.

Outdoorsy

2019 — 2020
Product Designer · Remote (US)

Redesigned booking and monetization flows to self-service, delivering ~30% revenue contribution, ~20% less support dependency, and the company's first mobile design system.

AppSamurai

2018 — 2019
CX Product & Design · Remote

Interaction strategy, navigation & flow, and design of interactive prototypes for AdTech customers.

Scotty

2017 — 2018
Advisor & Founding Designer · Istanbul · Acquired

Türkiye's first motorcycle ride-sharing platform. Defined the core map-based booking and real-time patterns; scaled from a founding team to ~100 people in a year.

Gobambino

2017 — 2018
Co-founder · Remote (US)

B2B2C marketplace for discovering and booking kids' activities. Led strategy, product and fundraising.

Botanalytics

2016 — 2017
Advisor, Founding Designer & Engineer · Remote

Conversational analytics with live in-conversation intervention. Adopted by Coca-Cola, eBay and AstraZeneca teams.

Clearsettle

2015 — 2016
Product Designer · London

First fintech role. Reframed merchant settlement and dispute flows for clarity and speed.

WPmanya

2014 — 2015
Founder · Istanbul · Acquired

WordPress themes marketplace; built the business strategy and led a team of 6 to an exit.

Independent Engagements

Product Designer & Engineer

2014 — present
30+ engagements · Remote · full-stack product

Rakam (→ LiveRamp) · Plectica (YC) · Mindcloud · Finch · DeFiTuna · Falcon AI · Youtility · LocalGuddy (Acq) · Midtown Doornail · Mobileaction — and 20+ more across AI, SaaS, fintech and mobile.