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Production-grade software — from backend systems to game engines.

I'm Sait Bedirhan Pala, a Software Engineer and Full-Stack Developer focused on backend systems, cloud-ready web products, mobile apps, game development and AI-powered automation. I've built for platforms with millions of readers — where performance, SEO and reliability actually matter.

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  • .NET
  • SvelteKit
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • Swift
  • Unity
  • UE5
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About

One engineer, several stacks — all in production.

I'm a full-stack developer working across the whole lifecycle of software: backend services in .NET and ASP.NET Core, modern frontends in SvelteKit and TypeScript, and deployments on AWS and Cloudflare. That breadth isn't scattered — each area feeds the others, and everything I build is meant to run in production.

A large part of my experience comes from Turkuvaz Media Group, where I worked as both an iOS and ASP.NET developer on high-traffic brands like Sabah, ATV, Fotomaç and Yeni Asır — their websites and native iOS apps. Working on platforms with millions of monthly readers teaches you to care about performance budgets, technical SEO, crawl behavior and shipping changes without breaking things people depend on.

Beyond the web, I build native iOS apps in Swift and SwiftUI, prototype games and real-time 3D systems in Unity and Unreal Engine 5, and develop AI agents and workflow automation — with a growing focus on turning those experiments into SaaS products.

  • Backend .NET · ASP.NET Core · PostgreSQL
  • Frontend SvelteKit · TypeScript
  • Scale High-traffic media platforms
  • Also iOS · Unity · UE5 · AI agents · AWS

Skills

Tech stack

Tools I use in production — grouped by where they fit, not by buzzword density.

Backend

  • .NET
  • ASP.NET Core
  • REST APIs
  • Entity Framework
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQL Server

Frontend

  • Svelte
  • SvelteKit
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Responsive UI

Cloud & Deployment

  • AWS
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • CI/CD
  • Docker basics
  • Deployment workflows

Mobile

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS Development

Game Development

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • UE5 Prototyping
  • Real-time 3D
  • Gameplay Systems

SEO & Analytics

  • GA4
  • Google Search Console
  • Semrush
  • Screaming Frog
  • Technical SEO
  • High-Traffic Media Platforms

AI & Automation

  • AI Agents
  • Workflow Automation
  • Prompt Engineering
  • SaaS Automation

Projects

Selected work

A mix of products in development and prototypes. Case studies and repositories will be linked as each one ships.

In Development

AI-Powered News Monitoring Agent

An automation agent that tracks news sources, classifies stories and surfaces trends in real time. Designed around a queue-based pipeline so new sources and models plug in without rework.

  • AI Agents
  • .NET
  • AWS Lambda
  • SQS
  • Workflow Automation
Case study coming soon
In Development

SaaS Dashboard Platform

A multi-tenant SaaS dashboard with role-based access, usage analytics and billing-ready architecture. Built API-first with a clean separation between the .NET backend and the SvelteKit frontend.

  • .NET 8
  • ASP.NET Core
  • SvelteKit
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS
Case study coming soon
Prototype

iOS Flight Tracking App

A native iOS app for tracking flights, built with SwiftUI around live status data and offline-friendly caching. Focused on fast cold starts and a minimal, glanceable interface.

  • Swift
  • SwiftUI
  • iOS
  • REST APIs
Case study coming soon
Prototype

Unity / UE5 Game Prototype

A Unity game project backed by an AI-assisted 3D asset pipeline — text-to-3D generation, Blender Python API cleanup, and automated Unity ingestion — alongside gameplay prototyping in Unreal Engine 5.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • Unreal Engine 5
  • Blender API
  • AI Pipeline
Case study coming soon
Live

Personal Portfolio Platform

This site — a fully prerendered SvelteKit application with a component-based architecture, custom design system and complete SEO setup, deployed on Cloudflare Pages with automatic builds from GitHub.

  • SvelteKit
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Cloudflare Pages
Case study coming soon

Experience

Where I've built things

  1. Nov 2025 – Present · Remote (US)

    Software Engineer (Contract)

    Mercor

    • Working remotely as a contract software engineer with a US-based company.
    • Delivering full-stack development work across web technologies, including TypeScript-based projects.

  2. Sep 2021 – Present · Istanbul

    Software Development Specialist — iOS & ASP.NET

    Turkuvaz Media Group

    • Working as both an iOS and ASP.NET developer across major Turkish media brands — on their websites and native iOS applications.
    • As an ASP.NET developer: building and maintaining backend services and web features on news platforms serving millions of monthly readers, where performance and uptime directly affect revenue.
    • As an iOS developer: developing and maintaining native apps for high-audience news and sports brands in Swift.
    • Working on SEO and analytics workflows across high-traffic pages using GA4, Google Search Console and crawl analysis tools.
    • Collaborating with editorial, product and engineering teams to ship changes safely on live, CMS-driven production systems.

    Brands I worked on

    Sabah ASP.NET Development sabah.com.tr ↗ ATV Web & iOS Development atv.com.tr ↗ Fotomaç Web & iOS Development fotomac.com.tr ↗ Yeni Asır Web & iOS Development yeniasir.com.tr ↗

  3. Ongoing

    Independent Product Development

    Side Projects & SaaS

    • Building an AI-assisted 3D asset pipeline (text-to-3D → Blender Python API → Unity ingestion) to speed up game content production.
    • Developing LLM agent systems and workflow automation tools, with a growing focus on SaaS products.
    • Shipping iOS prototypes in Swift/SwiftUI and experimenting across .NET services, SvelteKit frontends and AWS infrastructure.
    • Working toward AWS certification while applying cloud architecture patterns in real side projects.

Writing

Blog

Notes on building software — first posts are on the way.

SaaS 8 min read

Building SaaS Products with .NET and SvelteKit

Why a .NET backend and a SvelteKit frontend make a pragmatic, fast stack for solo and small-team SaaS products — and how to structure the boundary between them.

Coming soon
SEO 6 min read

Lessons from SEO and High-Traffic News Platforms

What running SEO and analytics on platforms with millions of readers teaches you about performance, crawl budgets and shipping changes without breaking traffic.

Coming soon
AWS 7 min read

Using AWS Services for Scalable Side Projects

A practical look at which AWS services are actually worth using for side projects — keeping costs near zero while leaving room to scale when something takes off.

Coming soon

Contact

Let's build something.

Whether it's a role, a project or a technical question — my inbox is open. I usually reply within a day.

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