Hello, I am Tuba.

Childhood photo of Tuba in a tiara and pale blue dress, mid-bite, as someone’s hand feeds her cake
Very serious about dessert since I was a kid.

Product manager, recovering chatbot apologist1. I grew up speaking Turkish 🇹🇷 and now argue with machines in English. I studied at Boğaziçi, then spent years in conversational AI2: bots before LLMs3, GPT-powered data tools4, used cars5, and now Berlin 🥨, where I own Flora, a chat and voice agent at Flix 💚 in 25+ markets6.

Ask me about containment vs. resolution 📉, why every voice demo works until it meets a real accent 🎙️, and going from operator to builder to founder. Right now: writing Runs on Vibes ✍️, building tiny weird products 🐱, and unapologetically testing my own habits7.

My timelapse.

Scroll to travel through time. The ship is me.

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Uncharted.

Operator, then builder, then founder. I’m still plotting the coordinates of the next world. If you’re building something in conversational AI, say hi.

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