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İlker Yörü — Co-Founder & CTO, Mindra

İlker Yörü

Co-Founder & CTO, Mindra

İstanbul, Türkiye

İlker Yörü is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mindra Inc., an AI infrastructure company building the orchestration layer that lets autonomous AI agents plan, coordinate and complete work together. He architected Mindra’s multi-agent orchestration engine, its multi-provider model routing and MCP-native tool integrations, and its backend on FastAPI, Next.js and PostgreSQL. Mindra raised a $1.2M pre-seed round led by TQ Ventures and is part of the NVIDIA Inception and Anthropic startup programs. He studies Computer Engineering and Economics at Koç University on a full merit scholarship, and works from İstanbul, Türkiye.

What I’m building

Mindra is a multi-agent orchestration platform. Instead of asking someone to wire up a fixed workflow, you describe what you need in plain language and an orchestrator decomposes the task, selects the right agents from your pool, coordinates them, and returns the finished work. The distinction that matters: the plan is produced at run time rather than drawn in advance, so it adapts when conditions change.

As CTO I own the technical architecture end to end — the orchestration engine, multi-provider model routing with prompt caching, MCP-native tool integrations, the human-in-the-loop approval model, and the DevOps foundation: containerization, CI/CD, database migrations and structured logging.

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Experience

  1. Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer · Mindra

    Oct 2025 — Present

    Architected the multi-agent orchestration platform, its model routing and tool integrations. Raised a $1.2M pre-seed led by TQ Ventures; accepted into NVIDIA Inception and the Anthropic startup program.

  2. Co-Founder & Product Architect · ControlWorks

    Apr 2025 — Nov 2025

    Built an enterprise manufacturing intelligence platform connecting CNC machines to real-time analytics, with sub-10-second monitoring latency and predictive maintenance on AWS.

  3. AI Research Engineer · Doping Technology

    Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

    Developed agentic applications running autonomous, multi-step workflows with multi-channel LLM protocols.

  4. Data Engineer · Bosch

    Aug 2024 — Mar 2025

    Built a predictive maintenance and time-series solution on the Chronos T5 model, and a generative-AI CV analysis tool. Extended Azure data pipelines on Databricks.

  5. Technical Lead & Investment Board Member · İşler Kariyer

    Jan 2022 — Nov 2025

    Led a cross-functional team of nine building İşler META, a digitalization platform serving 600+ branches with analytics, SSO and a generative-AI assistant. Directed the full AWS migration.

  6. AI Engineer, Research Intern · MelanomaLens

    Jul 2023 — Sep 2023

    Curated a large dermatological imaging dataset and improved melanoma detection F-scores through data augmentation.

Recognition

  • TigerLaunch — İstanbul Regional Winner & Grand Finalist — Princeton University Entrepreneurship Club2026
  • Best AI Initiative of 2025 in Türkiye — Boğaziçi University COMPEC2025
  • WEGathon AI Hackathon — 1st Place — Wingie Enuygun Group2025
  • Edu-Tech AI Hackathon — 1st Place — Doping Technology2025
  • AI Hackathon — 1st Place — Kuika2024
  • Automotive Case Competition — 2nd Place — Fiat2024
  • Full Merit Scholarship — Koç University2021

Speaking & press

In short

Who is İlker Yörü?
İlker Yörü is a Turkish software engineer and startup founder, born 2003, based in İstanbul. He is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mindra Inc., a Delaware-incorporated AI infrastructure company. Before Mindra he co-founded ControlWorks, worked as a data engineer at Bosch and as an AI research engineer at Doping Technology, and has led engineering at İşler Kariyer from 2022 to 2025. He also writes his name without Turkish diacritics as Ilker Yoru.
What is Mindra?
Mindra is an AI agent platform that behaves like a department rather than a single assistant. You describe a goal in plain language; an orchestrator breaks it into sub-tasks, assigns each one to the agent best suited to it, coordinates the work, and returns the result. It is model-agnostic and connects to existing tools and agents. The company raised a $1.2M pre-seed round led by TQ Ventures, a New York firm managing over $1B, and is a member of NVIDIA Inception and the Anthropic startup program.
What has he built?
At Mindra: the multi-agent orchestration engine, multi-provider model routing with prompt caching, MCP-native tool integrations, the authentication and role-based authorization model, and the DevOps foundation. At ControlWorks: a manufacturing intelligence platform connecting CNC machines to real-time analytics with sub-10-second latency. At Bosch: a predictive maintenance system on the Chronos T5 time-series model. At İşler Kariyer: İşler META, a digitalization platform serving more than 600 branches, and a full migration to AWS.
Does he speak and teach?
Yes. He has given two TEDx talks, delivered a keynote at eFounder, and appeared on CNBC-e national television to discuss multi-agent AI. He served as an AI judge and technical mentor at the Agora Voice AI Hackathon in İstanbul and as AI mentor at the ACUHIT Future Health Technologies Hackathon. At Koç University he was a teaching assistant for Advanced Programming, teaching Java to over 100 students.

Education

Koç University

BSc Computer Engineering & BSc Economics (double major)

Full merit scholarship. GPA 3.75. Teaching assistant for Advanced Programming, and co-president of the Science Club.

Focus

  • Multi-agent AI orchestration
  • AI agent infrastructure
  • Large language model systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Backend architecture
  • Data engineering
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • DevOps

Get in touch

The fastest way to reach me is email. I read everything.

ilker@mindra.co