Ali Buğatekin

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Ali Buğatekin

Builder · GOA Game Studio

I build products. I started on the web, shipped products on teams, and over time took on the whole product, from idea to growth. My current focus is GOA Game Studio.

📍 İstanbul, TR◆ GOA Game Studiospeaker · mentor

↓ right now

GOA Game Studio

GOA Game Studio

GOA makes small, sharp puzzle games for iOS, with Android on the way. Every level is verified solvable before release, and a new Daily Board opens for everyone, every day.

Games

GOA: Margin

Turn-based chase-and-escape puzzle.

GOA: The Cube Maze

Isometric mazes, generated endlessly.

↓ selected work

Projects

open source · MCP · skill registry

Agent Skills MCP

A skill registry on MCP that keeps tech-stack and code-quality knowledge in one place. Used at team scale; available as open source.

npm · MIT · ~346 dl/mo

Dev Inspector

An in-page mini DevTools panel that watches console + network live. Zero deps, TS support. Used in live production projects.

2024 — 2026 · payroll

Payroll products · filika.co & Datassist

Developer on filika.co's SMB product and on Datassist Agentic Payroll, Türkiye's first AI-powered payroll service. Cut first load by ~40%, led the Next.js 14 → 16 upgrades, and designed the product's table engine and walkthrough system.

blog · AI agents · MCP

Semi-autonomous dev

A long write-up on how I made my dev process semi-autonomous with AI agents and the MCP architecture I wired up.

↓ speaking & mentoring

What I share on stage

✱ topics

AI agents & agentic workflowsAI in software testingBuilding products with AIFrom idea to live productFull-time agents — theory + practice

✱ past events

Test-Driven Development event

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Software Testing Techniques

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Career Days

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Public software events — mentor

Software communities

↓ short story

The road in brief

2024

BSc in Computer Engineering

Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Board member of the ÇOMÜ Blockchain Club and art director for the team's digital design. My first serious work with AI started in this period, as ChatGPT came out.

2024 — 2026

Product engineering

payroll software

Web and agent-side development on two payroll products: performance, framework upgrades and in-product agent tooling.

2026 — now

GOA Game Studio

builder

GOA: The Cube Maze and GOA: Margin are live on the App Store.

↓ reach me

Contact

For partnerships, publishing and press, email is the fastest way to reach me.

Meet · Ali Buğatekin