About
Hi, I'm Faruk Can. I've been writing software for more than fifteen years, and since 2016 I've been building Tarfin from the ground up as its founding engineer and CTO. We started with a prototype; today it's an ML-powered financial platform serving farmers in more than one country.
Along the way I grew the engineering team from nothing, and now lead engineering, product and design across several countries. Day to day that means architecture, ML and data, bank integrations, payments, and keeping a fintech's cloud secure and up.
Experience
2016–now
TarfinFounding engineer & CTO
- Brought ML credit scoring into production with the data science team
- Integrated with major banks for real-time underwriting and payment automation
- Built the in-house payment gateway for collections and virtual POS
- Launched Tarfin Mobile for retailers and farmers
- Led AI R&D: virtual call center agents, document, photo and signature similarity
2014–2016
AdvelvetSoftware engineer
An ML-powered ad decision engine for Google AdX publishers.
2013–2014
Turkish Coal EnterprisesSoftware engineer
Electronic document management and strategic plan monitoring.
2010–2013
Ondokuz Mayıs UniversitySoftware engineer
Faculty website and CMS; led the Free and Open Source Student Club.
Education
2009–2013
BSc in Computer EngineeringOndokuz Mayıs University