Hey, it’s Onur.

I’m an engineer. I have a wide variety of interests. I write about them here.

Current work

I am a Founding Engineer at TextCortex where we help companies organize their knowledge and build agents. My role involves doing research, designing software architecture, developing new features and leading the engineering team.

While I was flirting work with TextCortex in Fall 2022, I created the first crappy CLI coding agent for them. This was before ChatGPT launched, using a custom Jupyter Kernel and OpenAI’s OG Codex code completion model. That crappy CLI coding agent then evolved over time into TextCortex’s main chat product.

I was the sole backend developer for 2 years. Then coding agents happened, and I was able to do a lot more. I am currently the lead engineer, overseeing all development.

There are a couple of unique open-source projects we are currently scaling, one of them is JSON-DOC. It’s a JSON- and block-based file format for storing documents. Documents are converted into structured data, similar to Notion documents, where each content gets an id, so that AI models can reference and manipulate huge content easier, compared to Markdown. This is currently being scaled internally and will be pushed to production very soon.

The other project is also under construction, will write about it more when it launches.

OpenClaw

I am a contributor at OpenClaw, one of the fastest growing open source projects of all time. I am currently maintaining the MS Teams implementation and various security related aspects.

Sports

I combine strength training and sports with engineering. See my Instagram channel Nerd on Bars @nerdonbars.

I am currently at 2 horsepowers of peak muscle-up power.

I am developing a fitness app, Horse, which uses computer vision models and geometric calculations to count reps. We challenge each other with friends, if you are reading this, I officially challenge you to a 2 minute AMRAP push-up duel.

Languages

I develop a simplified German dialect called Alman. See Alman.ai for more.

Manim Community

I’m a contributor at Manim Community. I created the Manim Voiceover plugin.

Education

My Accounts

Contact

You can reach out to me at [email protected].

Last updated: Jan 2026