Kagan Demirhindi

Pendo’s mission is to elevate the world’s experience with software. Pendo’s product experience platform allows companies to make product intelligence actionable with speed and scale, giving rise to a new generation of companies that put product at the center of everything.

• Agentic AI Development: Contributed to building the Supervisor Agent for Pendo’s Agent Mode. Worked across teams to help integrate sub-agents into the orchestration layer. Shipped production AI features used by real customers.

• AI Workflow Automation: Designed and shipped custom agentic workflows for context-aware outputs. Focused on reliable agent orchestration patterns rather than simple API calls.

• Agent Evaluation & Observability: Built an evaluation framework for testing agent performance. Integrated LLM-as-a-Judge to analyze response quality and help teams understand how their AI systems are doing.

• Data Pipeline Engineering: Developed a pipeline that aggregates account data to provide context for users and agents.

AI solutions studio helping businesses harness the power of AI.

• Building a B2B AI product for the wellness industry. Handling product development, customer discovery and technical architecture.

• Learning the full journey of building a company from scratch, from idea validation to shipping.

Teamwork.com is the only project management platform built specifically for client work. Deliver work on time and on budget, eliminate client chaos and understand profitability, all in one platform.

• AI Product Development: Worked on AI features from ideation to production. Shipped AI-generated project setups and onboarding task lists that helped improve onboarding completion rates. Built AI Forecasting using TinyTimeMixer and Prophet, self-hosted on AWS.

• Full Stack Development: Worked on features used by many users. Vue.js and Tailwind CSS for frontend, Go for backend. Used LaunchDarkly feature flags for safe deployments.

• Growth & User Analytics: Ran data-driven experiments to optimize KPIs and drive user growth. Used Pendo, HubSpot, Intercom and Hotjar to understand user behavior, iterate on features and measure impact.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked directly with designers, analysts and users. Gave and received direct feedback to ship faster. Maintained high software quality through rigorous testing.

AI-powered t-shirt design and print-on-demand web app. Built from scratch, shipped to production.

• Built a small AI product from idea to deployed app. Vue, Vite, Nuxt 3 on Cloudflare Pages with SSR. Integrated Stable Diffusion API for designs, Stripe for payments, Cloudflare R2 for storage.

• Learned fast by shipping. The project validated technical feasibility but hit payment processing issues during customer validation. Demo still available at looksounique.com.

London-based fintech startup. ePOS app that turns tablets and smartphones into powerful cash registers.

• Small team, high autonomy. Worked directly with CEO and CTO to define the product. Learned to be outcome-focused and ship fast.

• Built Go microservices with gRPC. Dockerized and deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine.

• Integrated with partner bank API to automate merchant onboarding , reduced time from contract to first transaction to just hours.

• Shipped a React + TypeScript mobile app using Ionic and Capacitor. Built custom Capacitor plugins for native SDK access.

Software consultancy in Izmir, Turkey. Strong culture of learning and exploring new technologies.

• Shipped multiple projects as an intern: product catalog app, activity monitoring software and data pipelines. Learned by building, not just reading.

• Built microservices with Java + Micronaut, PostgreSQL, GraphQL. Containerized with Docker and Docker Swarm.

• Built web scrapers with Scrapy-Splash to extract gigabytes of data daily. Prepared data for ML training using Python.

• Data visualization and analysis with Pandas, Elasticsearch, Kibana. Automated deployments with Bash.

Top research university in Turkey.

Started working as a developer in my second year while balancing coursework. Active in Ege Entrepreneurship Society, organizing company visits and campus events. Learned early that building is the best way to learn.