Kagan Demirhindi

Product experience platform that helps companies make product intelligence actionable at speed and scale.

• Core engineer on Pendo's AI agent, working end-to-end across multi-agent orchestration, skills, MCP tooling and eight workflows. Delivered 133 merged PRs across May and June 2026.

• Built Pendo’s internal agent evaluation tool from scratch, combining LLM-as-a-Judge, repeatable test suites, trace-based debugging and multi-backend comparison. It enabled engineers and PMs to make eval-driven decisions on model migrations, MCP tooling and launches.

• Initiated and led a model migration for Pendo’s AI agent and its expansion to Japan. Took Japan from proposal to internal testing in one week, owning technical delivery and coordination with Legal and Platform Ops.

• Improved agent reliability through trace-led debugging, hallucination guardrails and tool/context fixes. Synthesised traces, logs, analytics and user feedback into recurring AI-assisted gap analyses that surfaced high-impact improvements.

• Accelerated Pendo’s AI transformation through hands-on delivery and onboarding across multiple teams. Named Pendo's AI MVP for Q2 2026.

The only project management platform built specifically for client work.

• Worked on AI features from ideation to production, shipped AI-generated project setups that doubled onboarding completion rates.

• Built AI Forecasting using TinyTimeMixer and Prophet, self-hosted on AWS.

• Built production features with Vue.js, Tailwind CSS and Go. Used LaunchDarkly feature flags for safe, incremental rollouts.

• Ran data-driven experiments to optimize KPIs and drive user growth using Pendo, HubSpot and Hotjar.

London-based fintech startup. ePOS app that turns tablets and smartphones into powerful cash registers.

• Small team, high autonomy. Worked directly with CEO and CTO to define the product. Learned to be outcome-focused and ship fast.

• Built Go microservices with gRPC. Dockerized and deployed on Google Kubernetes Engine.

• Integrated with partner bank API to automate merchant onboarding, reduced time from contract to first transaction to just hours.

• Shipped a React + TypeScript mobile app using Ionic and Capacitor. Built custom Capacitor plugins for native SDK access.

Software consultancy in Izmir, Turkey. Strong culture of learning and exploring new technologies.

• Shipped multiple projects as an intern: product catalog app, activity monitoring software and data pipelines. Learned by building, not just reading.

• Built microservices with Java + Micronaut, PostgreSQL, GraphQL. Containerized with Docker and Docker Swarm.

• Built web scrapers with Scrapy-Splash to extract gigabytes of data daily. Prepared data for ML training using Python.

• Data visualization and analysis with Pandas, Elasticsearch, Kibana. Automated deployments with Bash.

“How to Train Your (Coding) Agent”: Explored the current state of LLM capabilities along with practical patterns for managing context windows, subagents, skills and agentic workflows (bash loops) for AI-first development.

“Fewer Juniors Today = Fewer Seniors Tomorrow”: Sparked widespread industry discussion on the long-term talent pipeline risks of AI hype in software engineering.

A two-phase gate locks design verdicts (right place, right abstraction, right thing to build) before line-level review begins. Separate evaluation bars per phase, a finding-depth ladder and a grader pass keep the output high-signal.

Portable skills + hooks that give coding agents wall-clock time awareness (chronos), productive disagreement (pushback), first-class git/PR workflows (shipit) and structured thinking (socratic). Multi-harness: Claude Code, Codex and others. More at github.com/kadenn.

Top research university in Turkey.

Started working as a developer in my second year while balancing coursework. Active in Ege Entrepreneurship Society, organizing company visits and campus events. Learned early that building is the best way to learn.