hey, I'm ekin 👋

product builder (product + engineering)

I work at the intersection of product and engineering, with hands-on experience building products in blockchain, developer tools, and operations management.

I spend most of my time building and shipping things, from developer-facing infrastructure to internal tools for payments, workflows, and day-to-day operations. I'm an intern! I like getting my hands dirty, learning fast, and figuring things out by doing.

Lately I've been focused on engineering operations, trying to unlock step-function improvements that help teams scale operations by implementing AI-powered tools and workflows.

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Here's the kind of stuff I build

GetFertilizer

— Agricultural data and operations platform focused on fertilizer markets.

Helps buyers and sellers find the right products, connect with suppliers, and make sense of pricing. We're building the data layer the fertilizer industry never had.

Fractual

— Financial infrastructure for fractional investing.

Tools for managing fractional ownership — from structuring deals and tracking portfolios to handling compliance and investor reporting. Built for operators who need things to actually work.

Investimate

— AI-assisted investment research and due diligence platform.

Pulls together data from a bunch of sources so you can research and compare investments faster. It's a research tool, not a trading bot — the human still makes the call.

Tinkering (tools I build to scale)

Orvion

— Dev tools and infrastructure for payments and usage-based systems.

Building blocks for metered billing, identity-linked payments, and programmable money flows. Designed for apps, APIs, and agents that need to charge for what they do.

GTM Intelligence

— AI-powered prospecting agent for go-to-market teams.

Automates prospect research and lead qualification so GTM teams can focus on closing, not searching. Feed it a target profile and it surfaces the people and companies worth talking to.

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content that inspired me

name	category	type
Predictably Irrational	Business	Book
How Will My Agent Pay for Things?	Business	Article
State of Markets - Jan '26	Business	Presentation
What matters in tech?	Business	Blog
Are you designing for state accumulation from day one?	Business	Article
Making Sense of Memory in AI Agents	Education	Article
Musings on Markets	Business	Blog
The great reorg: A human’s guide	Business	Article
Private Proof of Human: Critical Infrastructure for Humanity in a World with Advanced AI	Education	Article
Philipp Schmid's Blog	Product	Blog

people who inspire me

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Aswath Damodaran

Professor of Finance at the NYU Stern. Teach classes in corporate finance and valuation, primarily to MBAs, but generally to anyone who will listen.

Naval Ravikant

Balaji Srinivasan

Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.

Martin Casado

Martín Casado is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and a pioneer of software-defined networking.

Chris Dixon

Lenny Rachitsky

Product, growth, and the mastermind behind the #1 product newsletter.