About

Cengiz Gürtusgil

I'm a lead developer at IBM, originally from Heidenheim, Germany. Alongside my work, I build and run products of my own.

Before moving into software development, I completed an apprenticeship as a sales assistant at GameStop.

I've worked on My TruckPoint, a SaaS platform for Daimler Truck, and on Kiana, an AI voicebot for passenger assistance at Deutsche Bahn, piloted at Berlin Brandenburg Airport. Travellers could ask about their journey, get suggested rail connections and scan a QR code to buy a ticket.

Independent projects

  • Fahrdienstsoftware is software I built for taxi, private-hire and medical transport providers, covering dispatch, drivers, vehicles and billing. It's currently making US$1,400 MRR.
  • Polaris Deploy is a UI I built for Kamal, with a native macOS app written in Swift and a Linux app. It brings deployments, logs and server monitoring into one place and has made US$700 in revenue.
  • FastRetro is an open-source retrospective tool I built for teams. It has 2,060 users across 542 company accounts. The companies represented among its users have a combined enterprise value of over US$1 trillion. The source code is available on GitHub.

Product figures as of .

You can find me on X (@JangoCG) and GitHub.