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Akif Yaldır

Product Design Engineer & Founding Product Engineer

I build and ship AI products end-to-end — strategy, design, and production code. 15+ years across 30+ engagements: four startups founded end-to-end, two acquisitions shaped, and senior design at US companies — all from Europe.

akifyaldir@gmail.com yaldir.com linkedin.com/in/akifyaldir github.com/akifyaldir No sponsorship needed
Portrait of Akif Yaldır
30+
Product engagements
4
Startups founded
2
Acquisitions shaped
US
No sponsorship needed
Toolkit
Figma React · Next.js Vercel AI SDK Supabase Swift · iOS AWS · n8n Stripe
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio yaldir.com
Case 01 · Founder 2025 — 2026

Agenlead — AI voice agents

Product, Design & Engineering · Shipped, in production

An outbound platform of autonomous voice agents that dial a lead, hold a real conversation, qualify intent and book a consultation — then score and summarize every call. Founded and built end-to-end: product, design, iOS app, and the cloud automation that runs the agents.

Problem

Outbound sales is slow and inconsistent — reps dial dead numbers, repeat the same opening, and the good conversations get lost in the noise.

Approach

The agent does the repetitive 80%; humans get only calls worth their time, each transcribed and scored. Orchestrated as discrete, observable, retry-able stages.

React 19 Swift · iOS n8n ElevenLabs Twilio GPT-4o-mini Supabase AWS ECS + RDS
0 → 1
Built end-to-end — iOS, web & voice.
~$0.002
Cost per AI-analyzed call.
−44%
Workflow code, one LLM pass.
iOS + Web
Real-time on one backend.
Agenlead dashboard — campaigns, agents and leads
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio 01 · Agenlead
Case 02 · Product Engineer 2022 — 2024

PatternAI — adaptive GenAI onboarding

Product Engineer / GenAI · Sole designer, 5–6 engineers · Remote (US)

A GenAI productivity platform for enterprise teams. I owned the experience that turned skeptical first-time users into confident weekly returners — chat-based querying of structured data and adaptive UI, shipped in 2022, before ChatGPT.

Problem

Low activation — new cohorts logged in, typed two prompts, and never returned. No mental model, a blank canvas, and a buried "aha".

Approach

Show the shape of the answer first; suggest, don't autoplay (cut suggestions below 22% accept); make the second day better than the first.

20–40
Enterprise customers, up from ~1–5.
2022
Shipped before ChatGPT.
Faster
Shorter sales cycles.
Std.
Patterns now industry-standard.
PatternAI — My Feed dashboard with AI-generated summaries
"Interaction patterns that have since become the dominant design language of generative AI products — in 2022, before ChatGPT."
Andrew Hickey — Head of Product, PatternAI (now at Google)
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio 02 · PatternAI
Case 03 · Product Designer 2019 — 2020

Outdoorsy — mobile booking flow

Product Designer · Mobile squad, 6 eng + 1 PM · Remote (US)

The world's largest RV rental marketplace. I rebuilt the listing-to-checkout flow and introduced a "Trip Confidence" pattern that reshaped how hosts and renters negotiate — shipping real lift to mobile revenue and conversion.

Problem

Mobile was 64% of sessions but 31% of revenue. Specs buried, hosts replied in 6–18h (silence read as rejection), checkout was six steps.

Approach

Re-mapped the journey as three confidence moments — "right rig," "they'll reply," "it's real." Trip Confidence card + collapsed checkout.

~30%
Revenue contribution.
−20%
Support dependency.
11h→2h40
Median host reply time.
1st
Mobile design system.
Outdoorsy booking detail with specs Outdoorsy host profile with reviews Outdoorsy trip dashboard
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio 03 · Outdoorsy
Case 04 · Co-founder 2025

Shotfit — AI photo coach

Co-founder · Product, Design & Engineering · iOS · App Store

An iOS app using on-device vision and a small instruction-tuned model to coach casual photographers in real time — composition cues, light reading, one suggestion per frame. A coach in the viewfinder, not a critic in the camera roll. Led from idea to App Store.

Idea

The photo on the screen looks worse than the moment in front of you. Shotfit asks why — and offers one small, actionable cue. Not a tutorial, not a filter.

Approach

The loop is capture → review → improve. Restraint was the product — everything I chose not to show kept it a whisper, not a nag.

0 → 1
Built end-to-end.
On-device
Real-time vision model.
1 cue
Per frame — no clutter.
iOS
Shipped to App Store.
Shotfit explore shooting categories Shotfit photo quality breakdown Shotfit gallery of analyzed photos
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio 04 · Shotfit
In their words

Trusted by the people I've built with.

"
I worked with Akif early in his career, when his talent and drive were already clear. His contributions were critical to several of our most important projects.
Tyler Quiel — CEO, Giggster · former VP Product, Outdoorsy
"
Akif stands out even among highly experienced product designers. His work across AI interaction design represents meaningful and original contributions.
Rıza Selçuk Saydam — Product Design Lead, Uber
"
He joined as founding designer and fourth employee, and stayed sole designer as we scaled to ~100 people. Uncommon ability to design systems that work in the real world.
Tarkan Anlar — CEO & Founder, Scotty
"
Very few individuals can take ownership of both product direction and execution at this level. His contributions were original and of significant importance.
Burak Emre Kabakcı — Founder, Rakam (acquired by LiveRamp)
Akif Yaldır — Portfolio Testimonials
Experience · 2008 — present

15+ years of product ships.

VisaEngine Founding Product Engineer
2026 —
Agenlead AI lead gen
2025 — 26
Shotfit Co-founder · iOS
2025
PatternAI Product Engineer · GenAI
2022 — 24
Outdoorsy Product Designer · US
2019 — 20
Rakam Founding Designer · Acq.
2018 — 19
AppSamurai Product & Interaction
2018 — 19
Gobambino Co-founder · US
2018 — 19
Scotty Advisor & Founding Designer
2017 — 18
Botanalytics Founding Designer & Eng.
2016 — 17
Clearsettle Product Designer · London
2015 — 16
WPmanya Founder · Acquired
2014 — 15
Independent 30+ · Plectica (YC), Cohart
2008 —

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