KuExpo
AI-powered B2B2C fair management platform
A SaaS for managing trade fairs & events — free for organizers, usage-based pricing for exhibiting companies.
About Me
I build products end to end — idea, design, engineering, launch. My journey with software began in 2017 with a Swift course, and I went all in after I couldn't find a developer for my first idea. I've been shipping my own products to real users ever since: KuExpo, an AI-powered event-management platform, is live on the App Store and Google Play, and LifeCheck Mobility, a personal-safety app, is live on the App Store. Lately I've gone deep on EV-charging infrastructure — building Gridspark and contributing to open-source OCPP projects used across the industry. I'm open to bringing that builder instinct into a team with the scale to take it further.
Product-minded 🎯
End-to-end execution 🚀
Cross-platform: Web, iOS, Android 📱
In the Press
UAE Times Now ·
Ugur Cihan Cekic Is Building The Future Of Exhibitions
How a missing developer turned into a founder's decision to learn to build it himself, and how that led to KuExpo, a platform reshaping how exhibitions connect people, companies and experiences.
Read the article (opens in a new tab)My Book
Coming soon
Makineyle Aynı Masada
A guide to staying human in the age of AI
A new guest sat at our table. Nobody said "welcome", and nobody said "get up".
A calm, curious guide to living with AI: how machines learned to talk, what it means for your job, your kids and your decisions, how to spot fake voices, and how to write your own tiny language model in twenty minutes. Neither doom nor hype. Written in Turkish.
- Understand AI without fear or worship
- 11 diagrams, tables, and a small experiment in every chapter
- A one-page "doubt checklist" to hand to your parents
My Projects
Products
LifeCheck Mobility
Personal safety & emergency assistant
Alerts your loved ones automatically if something happens — walking home alone, on a motorcycle trip, or facing a health risk. Live on the App Store.
ReviewMaster TR
AI-powered review-reply SaaS for local businesses
Connects a business's Google profile and drafts on-brand AI replies to customer reviews — nothing sends without owner approval.
SoberStat
Social drinking & health-awareness app
A mobile app that helps people track consumption habits and build health awareness.
Fotoshop
iOS photo & video editing app with on-device effects
SwiftUI app with a Node/TypeScript backend for auth and storage — all photo/video processing runs on-device, not server-side.
AI Chatbot
Next.js-based AI chat application
A Next.js chat interface built to prototype and experiment with LLM integrations.
VulcanGuard
Home & family disaster-safety app — wildfire first
Built around reassurance, not information: a night-time alarm that can wake a family even when the phone is on silent, a family safety circle with “I'm safe” check-ins, and multi-property evacuation plans. Hazard data comes from satellite feeds with a stated delay — every alert shows its source and timestamp, and it never replaces 112 or official warnings. In planning.
Engineering & Open Source
Gridspark
Gridspark — EV charging network backend: OCPP station comms + OCPI roaming
A from-scratch EV charging platform covering both protocols a real network runs on, in one process: real OCPP-J session framing (BootNotification through StopTransaction, periodic MeterValues) for talking to charge points, and the real OCPI registration handshake (Token A/B/C) plus Locations/CDR settlement for roaming partners — with a live, tabbed operations console. Dockerized, open source.
Open Source
Contributions to open-source EV-charging projects
- mobilityhouse/ocpp #776 ↗Added 91 classes missing from the OCPP 2.1 spec to a widely used Python OCPP library, with regression tests.
- steve-community/steve #2143 ↗Hardened the Docker Compose setup of a production OCPP server: closed the database port to the host, added an isolated network.
The Bug
Automated code-audit agent for developers
A CLI that surfaces proof-backed, verified findings instead of blending them with guesses.
Web & Backend
Saf Hobi Atölye
Pastel-pink storefront for a handmade Trendyol shop
Standalone e-commerce concept for a real handmade brand. A headless-Chrome scraper pulls the shop's ~190 Trendyol products, prices, and images nightly into a JSON catalog; the site renders them with filtering, quick-view, and confetti — checkout hands off to Trendyol. Live and browsable.
Socrates Creative Events
Motion-first redesign concept for a corporate event agency
Independent redesign concept of a real client's Wix site — WebGL hero, scroll-driven motion, and a working mobile nav. Live and fully browsable, not just a screenshot.
myartauthentic
Digital authentication site for artworks
A web platform for verifying the authenticity of art pieces.
Ventures & Concepts
Panther Carry
Human-assisted carrying & concierge service for premium spaces
A service concept offering professional, discreet human support in malls, airports, and events.
Cenova Media
In-elevator advertising for prestigious locations
A media/ad network running brand campaigns inside residence, office, and premium-building elevators.
Confidential Work
NDA-protected client projects
Some of the products I've built live under client confidentiality agreements and can't be listed here — happy to walk through specifics in a conversation.
How I Build
I move comfortably across languages and platforms — from web to mobile, backend to automation, I build whatever the problem needs. I have apps live on both iOS and Android. 🚀
Languages
🐍 Python
🟨 JavaScript / TypeScript
🐦 Swift
🤖 Kotlin
🗃️ SQL
📟 Bash / Shell
Mobile
📱 Flutter
🍎 iOS (live on the App Store)
🤖 Android (on Google Play)
Web & Backend
⚛️ Next.js / React
🟢 Node.js
🗄️ Supabase / Postgres
🔥 Firebase
🔗 REST & GraphQL APIs
🐳 Docker
▲ Vercel
Tools & Workflow
🧰 VS Code
🔧 Git & CI/CD
🧪 Automated Testing (Playwright)
📐 System Design
Security & AI
🔒 Auth & Security
🧠 LLM Integrations
🎯 Product & UX Design
Certificates
iOS 26 & Swift 6: Beginner to Advanced
Udemy · Oct 2026 · 59.5 h
ID UC-910fd754…
Programmer Bootcamp: Python, Java, C#
Udemy · Oct 2026 · 104.5 h
ID UC-b908e8b0…
Ethical Hacker Course
Udemy · Oct 2026 · 30.5 h
ID UC-f106b870…
SQL Intermediate
SoloLearn · Oct 2026
ID CC-0X67YJTB
Python Developer
SoloLearn · Oct 2026
ID CC-OQRM8ZQA
Swift Fundamentals
SoloLearn · Oct 2017
ID 1075-3454769
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