Mehmet Duran

- Built the new AI function from scratch as Head of AI, defining the strategy, identifying product opportunities, and aligning product and technology leads around practical, high-value AI use cases.
- Led the development of a natural language interface that converted user queries into structured API calls, enabling accurate, reproducible answers instead of opaque generative responses.
- Developed 

Software consultant working on a range of long-term engagements

- Worked with a number startups on an ongoing basis, providing consultancy on product, software design and growth
- Mid-sized teams up to 50, working on SaaS, hardware, gaming, art and health tech products
- Ran workshops and collaborated on strategy documents, ran interviews and helped with recruitment
- Reviewed and designed softwa

- Built a data visualisation for journal editors as part of the content acquistion team
- Engaged with the wider front-end community for establishing the design system

- Team lead for Teachers Continuing Professional Development project
- Grew a team of developers from 6 to 12 developers, 1 tester and hired a Technical Architect
- Worked on technical architecture, planning and service design of the programme
- Established the development environment, best practices, development life cycle, pipeline, and testing
- Engaged with the wider Technical Architecture com

- CTO of Mortar, a data analysis and AI startup for the real estate sector.
- I oversaw the design and development of an AI engine with a team of developers, and implemented it on client projects and demos.
- Worked on planning, writing business plans and cases, meeting with investors, applying to grants, stakeholder management and everything else you need to do as a co–founder.

- CTO of a creative technology agency
- Responsible for a team of developers and designers all working remotely
- Responsible for pitching, client and stakeholder management, writing proposals and designing technical solutions for client projects.
- Co-built and ran a team of remote developers.
- Shortlisted on Cannes 2019 Golden Lions in Design category.

- Fixed issues around usability and accessibility on the Ethnicity Facts and Figures website
- Added features to the static site generator

- Worked in the FT.com team and developed features for the FT website and their enterprise tools.
- Worked on an automated accessibility testing procedure and documented it, and generally helped with solving accessibility issues across the team.
- Worked in the Origami team on the o-table component to fix sorting on tables.

- Developer in the Accessibility Team, which was responsible for the whole of GOV.UK’s accessibility
- Responsible for helping with user research, developing tools to help other developers, help with audits, answer questions, give talks and participate in the community building efforts of the team
- Worked on a large research project and published our findings on automated accessibility testing to

- Tech Lead for the Data and API team
- Respondible for technical standards, API and data standards
- Responsible for reviewing API designs and consulting for other teams
- Designed and lead the development of the Data Catalogue
- Technical and security design for the PNC airwaves API
- Ran the discovery for Life Events Verification
- Also head of accessibility for the developers

- Worked on Court Finder, the ruby on rails version, and worked on rewriting it in Python/Django
- Worked on migrating Court Finder data to the new platform
- Front-end developer at People Finder and Tribunal Decisions Database

- Worked with Barclays.com team on responsive tables.
- Worked on mobile-first and responsive prototypes for other projects.

Worked on-site with the BT team at BT Centre to deliver the next phase of their customer facing product management platform.

- Ran a computer vision research at Photobox, developed an algorithm and a test tool that tries to determine the best photos in a given set of images
- Implemented a lot of ideas I gathered from academic papers such as histogram analysis and temporal grouping
- Using OpenCV on Python implemented many of the algorithms including face recognition
- Wrote a testing tool on wxPython for desktop use
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- Helped create the OOCSS-style modular CSS classes that were used in the new Co-operative funeral care website.
- Worked on a map visualisation tool for HSBC’s Global Connections website using d3.js and underscore.js.

Worked on Lab49’s custom MVC framework for financial clients.
jQuery, underscore.js, Require.js, Nirvana SASS.

Worked as Software Engineer at Intent HQ | FT1000 fastest growing European business.

Worked on the development of the front-end of Axon Active's data visualisation product, using Spring Framework, Thymeleaf, HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

Worked with head of software to create a new node.js based web back-end, including testing and front-end.

During my time at R/GA London, I worked on almost every project that needed open standards development. I've pretty much built most of the projects from the ground up, designed the systems, done the back-end mostly in PHP, front-end HTML/CSS/JavaScript, many times all by myself.

- Back-end and front-end maintenance of the Now Playing website for Nokia using the WordPress platform.
- Back-end deve