Berkant Ay

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Software Engineer

I'm an engineer in Berlin building AI agents, developer tools, and the infrastructure behind them. I'm currently researching.

I built PrimePage end to end, from product and agent orchestration to its multi-tenant backend and Kubernetes platform. Previously, I worked at Pyne, Firefly, Siemens, DASAL, and Airties.

Contributions

9,372

Writing

Running 1,000 Hermes Agents on Three Machines

The 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 Agents

AI 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 Management

Building multi-agent AI systems that work. Practical lessons on the orchestrator-worker pattern, scoped autonomy, context management, and parallel execution for agentic architectures.

Built

Cheez

Human-feeling animated pen marks for React.Open source

GoMorph

Detect AI-generated morphing in videos.Open source

mcprox

Expose any API to an LLM.Open source

Lucius

A versioned canvas for pairing with AI.Open source

slop0

Deterministic code-quality analysis for LLM output.Open source

codesearch

AST-based codebase indexing and search.Open source

Sl4y Theme

A neon Zed theme used by 20,000+ developers.Open source

polar-cli

Manage Polar monetization from the terminal.Open source

021labs

Applied RL and agent-evaluation research.Product

Primepage.ai

AI-powered website redesign and generation.Product

Bax.email

Email infrastructure for AI-first teams.Product

Louk.io

A context layer for small businesses.Product

Nestneo

An AI-powered baby-care assistant.Product

Experience

Researching

RL environments and long-horizon agents2025 — Now

Pyne

Founding Engineer2024 — 2025

Firefly

Senior Software Engineer2023 — 2024

Siemens

Software Engineer2021 — 2023

DASAL

AI R&D Engineer2019 — 2021

Airties

Hardware Engineer2018 — 2019