Okan Binli

9+ years building for the web, from Rails backends to Ember and React frontends. Team lead when the job needs it, solo builder when it doesn't.

aka Peyloride Çanakkale, Türkiye · working remotely with global teams

Specimen catalog · est. 2017 · continuously updated

Experience

Five teams since 2017. Everything below runs in production.

Instrumentl

Software Developer

2022-nowSan Francisco · remote

Full-stack features on the core product and growth teams: Rails on the backend, Ember.js on the frontend. Led a complex Ember version upgrade and shipped with Hotwire, Stimulus and Tailwind.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • Ember.js
  • React
  • Heroku

spaceOS

Software Developer

2022Warsaw · remote

Performance work on a large-scale building-management platform, then IoT integrations: smart parking and visitor access on AWS Lambda.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • AWS Lambda
  • IoT
  • Redis

Paraşüt

Software Team Lead

2019-2022Istanbul

Built a new product and its team from scratch (three developers, a designer, a PM) on top of a legacy dual-Ember codebase, and shipped to production with active users.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • Ember.js
  • RSpec
  • Leadership

Artistanbul

Software Engineer

2018-2019Istanbul

Built most of the frontend for a web-based 3D-printing interface in Three.js and React (spatial logic, collision detection), plus Open edX customization and Django backends.

  • Three.js
  • React
  • Django
  • SCSS

idemama

Software Engineer

2017-2018Istanbul

Sole developer maintaining and improving a designer-client platform: the year I learned to own everything.

  • Ruby on Rails
  • PostgreSQL
  • Heroku

Builds

Side projects and the machine room: things I shipped because nobody would build them for me.

live since 2019

Fuel-consumption tracking for motorcyclists. Built and run solo: Rails, Next.js, a PWA you can use at the pump. 2,000+ monthly riders.

  • Rails
  • Next.js
  • PWA

live 2024-now

Turns any photo into a knitting-pattern grid: smart color quantization, offline-first, exports to PDF. On the App Store and Google Play.

  • Mobile
  • K-means
  • Offline-first

ongoing always

Proxmox, Frigate, Home Assistant, OpenWrt, Pangolin, Coolify: a house that mostly runs itself, documented in the field notes below.

  • Proxmox
  • Docker
  • OpenWrt

Field Notes

Writing from the field: fixes, journeys and patterns worth remembering.

  1. CGNAT's Sticky IP and Türk Telekom's DPI: The Zapret Fix

    Türk Telekom, CGNAT

  2. Fixing RTL8153B USB Ethernet Adapter Stuck in CD-ROM Mode on Raspberry Pi 5 (OpenWrt)

    OpenWrt, Raspberry Pi 5

  3. Fixing Intel iGPU Passthrough for Frigate After Proxmox Kernel Upgrade

    proxmox, dkms

All notes →

Contact

Building a product, wrestling with a technical design, or hiring for a role? Tell me about it.

projects · technical design · work opportunities

[email protected]

No forms, no middlemen: mail lands straight in my inbox.

Hand-built with Hugo. No tracking beyond Umami, no cookies, no pop-ups.