Ata Caner Cetinkaya: Rust systems engineer, compiler engineer, AI and machine learning engineer, and open-source contributor.
Rust / C++ / 14 projects / open source merged into burn
Bring me a problem, or half an idea. What comes back is a product.
Between idea and product, the work changes hands five times: mathematician, architect, systems engineer, interface designer, and the engineer who gets it into production. All five are mine.
maths & statistics
A fuzzy idea can't be checked, priced, or trusted. I make it precise: equations, distributions, error bars. If the numbers don't hold, we find out here, not in production.
Uniswap V3 tick maths, reciprocal rank fusion, HdrHistogram percentiles, and the Navier-Stokes field behind this page.
systems architecture
Boundaries, queues, and failure modes get drawn before any code exists. What must never block, what may fall behind, what happens when it breaks: those answers are the architecture.
A lock-free price-time matching engine. An agent pipeline running a real job search.
rust & performance
Safe Rust on the hot paths; measurement across the whole system. The meter here is not a mock: it is this page profiling itself, frame by frame, right now.
Zero locks on the matching path. A sampling profiler. BLAS-backed learning maths.
interface design
Engineering that ships ugly still loses. Type, rhythm, and motion that mean something are part of the product, not paint on top. This page is part of the proof.
this site: a hand-built fluid sim, 14 procedural portraits, a design system owned end to end
delivery
An idea only counts once it runs where people can reach it. The proof is below: 14 projects across five domains, this site among them.
Cloudflare deployment. Tauri desktop builds. An agent storefront, live.
The line is one SVG path, drawn by your scroll. The fit is computed live; the queue sheds under pressure; the meter is profiling this page.
Everything I've built so far: 14 projects across 5 domains, one scene at a time. Have a look around.
learning systems
Working with intelligence, memory and retrieval.
continual intelligence
A brain-inspired continual-learning substrate, built without backpropagation.
Learning persists across laps; nothing is ever retrained from zero.
rustbevyblas
media memory engine
A local-first media-memory engine, and the family of asset browsers built on it.
One engine owns the memory; every product just teaches it a new medium.
rusttaurireactonnx
measured, not predicted
Contract-guarded kernel fusion: candidate plans race on the real GPU, and the winner holds only while its conditions do.
Measured on real training runs, attention stacks and mini-GPTs included: 4.9% past stock Burn's best setting, on a partition no static score can express.
rustburncubeclmetal
market machinery
Reading and executing the structures beneath price.
defi analytics
Local-first DeFi analytics, from Uniswap V3 mechanics to cross-DEX arbitrage.
Uniswap V3 tick maths to cross-DEX arbitrage, decoded entirely on your machine.
rusttauritypescript
matching engine
A lock-free limit-order-book matching engine, written in safe Rust.
Price-time priority with no locks anywhere on the hot path.
rusttokioratatuihdrhistogram
sharp instruments
Making the invisible costs of software visible.
where time goes
A profiler that shows where programs actually spend their time, without drowning you in it.
The hot path has nowhere to hide from a sampling profiler.
c#tmodloader
learning substrate
An interactive substrate for learning hard technical material by doing it.
Structure you traverse beats prose you skim.
reacttaurimdxkatex
software that acts
Where the users are programs: status, pipelines, commerce.
agent pipeline
An agent-driven pipeline that runs a job search like an engineering project.
Hundreds discovered, dozens graded, a handful tailored; volume becomes precision.
rusttokiosqliteratatui
agent commerce
A storefront built for AI agents to buy from, not browse.
Orders placed and fulfilled by software; the storefront speaks protocol.external →
astrocloudflare workersd1
full-stack apps
Shipping the finished thing: software you download, open and use.
search by meaning
A local-first Mac image browser that finds any picture by what it means, not what it is named.
Thousands of images, searched by what they mean, none of them leaving your Mac.
rusttaurireactonnx
adaptive typing trainer
An adaptive touch-typing trainer that lives in your MacBook's notch and drills the keys you actually miss.
Monkeytype measures you; TypeNotch trains you.
swiftswiftui
ambient agent status
Your Mac's notch becomes a live status surface for coding agents.
Your agents' heartbeat, glanceable without ever switching context.
swiftswiftui
time into invoices
A fully on-device macOS time tracker that narrates your day and turns it into billable hours.
The Mac's own AI writes up the day; nothing it reads ever leaves the machine.
swiftswiftuisqlite
workspace as tech tree
A Linear workspace read as a horizontal tech tree on an endless canvas.
Read-only by design, and it runs on local demo data today rather than a live workspace.
typescriptreactd3-force
the proof network
Symbols on the left, outputs on the right. A line means the two ends shipped together; unresolved claims say so.
the linker · symbols in / evidence out
46 symbols resolving into 18 outputs. A line means the two ends shipped together; its colour runs between the fields it connects. Dim symbols are unresolved: no public artefact yet.
Paid reach · open offer
I don't run brand accounts and I don't buy ads. I'd rather pay the people who post about the things I build. Pick any product, post what you actually think of it, then show me the numbers.
The rate card
25,000 views
on a single post
£25
100,000 views
totalled across your posts
£25
Starting rates. They'll move as I learn what reach is worth.
01 / post
Any platform, any format, your own voice. Say what you think, including the parts that aren't flattering. And when you start posting, tell me: send an email or use the contact form below.
02 / send proof
Analytics screenshots and the links, to ata02caner@gmail.com. One email is enough.
03 / get paid
Bank transfer or PayPal, whichever you'd rather. A person reads every submission, and that person is me.
Disclose it Paid posts have to say they're paid, wherever you post them. That's UK advertising rules, not my preference. No disclosure, no payout.
Checked by hand I read the analytics myself. Bought or farmed views get nothing, and the call is mine.
Not a contract It's an open offer. It can change or pause at any time, so ask me first if the number matters to you.
Channel open
A role, a hard technical problem, or an idea worth shipping. Send the rough version. I'll answer with the honest one.
Message payload
Channel open