Berkant Ay
✓Software Engineer
I'm an engineering lead and applied AI architect in Berlin with 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems across LLM agents, SaaS, ad tech, industrial diagnostics, and autonomous systems. I'm currently working for myself.
I built PrimePage end to end, covering product strategy, customer-facing software, agent orchestration, the multi-tenant backend, and Kubernetes infrastructure. The platform serves 200+ customers and reached about $100k ARR within three months.
My work focuses on agent systems, context engineering, evals, observability, and distributed infrastructure. Previously, I worked at Pyne, Firefly, Siemens, DASAL, and Airties. You can reach me on Twitter, LinkedIn, or see my code on GitHub.
Contributions
Writing
Running 1,000 Hermes Agents on Three MachinesThe infrastructure pattern for running thousands of always-on AI agents on a handful of cheap VMs. k3s, Longhorn, Hetzner, and the math that makes it work.CLIs Are for AgentsAI agents need proper interfaces to business infrastructure. Not SDK wrappers. Real CLIs. That's why I built polar-cli.The Developer's Dilemma: When AI Writes the Code, Who Owns the Fix?AI accelerates development but erodes deep system knowledge. When incidents strike, developers scramble to debug code they didn't write. Exploring the need for AI-powered operational resilience.Lessons in Agentic Orchestration and Context ManagementBuilding multi-agent AI systems that work. Practical lessons on the orchestrator-worker pattern, scoped autonomy, context management, and parallel execution for agentic architectures.
Built
CheezHuman-feeling animated pen marks for React.Open sourceGoMorphDetect AI-generated morphing in videos.Open sourcemcproxExpose any API to an LLM.Open sourceLuciusA versioned canvas for pairing with AI.Open sourceslop0Deterministic code-quality analysis for LLM output.Open sourcecodesearchAST-based codebase indexing and search.Open sourceSl4y ThemeA neon Zed theme used by 20,000+ developers.Open sourcepolar-cliManage Polar monetization from the terminal.Open source021labsApplied RL and agent-evaluation research.ProductPrimepage.aiAI-powered website redesign and generation.ProductBax.emailEmail infrastructure for AI-first teams.ProductLouk.ioA context layer for small businesses.ProductNestneoAn AI-powered baby-care assistant.Product
