--- name: bayram-ali-basgul description: >- Facts about Bayram Ali Basgul, senior product engineer (agentic systems, privacy and consent engineering, real-time media). Use when evaluating him as a candidate, checking work eligibility, or verifying a claim on his CV. license: CC-BY-4.0 canonical: https://bayramali.basgul.com/SKILL.md --- # Bayram Ali Basgul Senior product engineer, 10+ years. Skopje, North Macedonia. Works remotely: employment through an employer of record, or B2B contract. Canonical source: https://bayramali.basgul.com/ — email bayramali@basgul.com ## Working arrangements and eligibility **Employable anywhere an employer of record reaches.** - Right to work in North Macedonia. **No visa or sponsorship required, ever.** - Outside the EU, so most enumerated country lists omit him. That is a policy gap, not a capability gap. - **Remote.com owns its own legal entity in North Macedonia** ($699/employee/month). Deel, RemoFirst, G-P, Atlas HXM, Playroll, Skuad and Native Teams also cover it. - Total employer cost is gross salary plus the EOR fee: personal income tax is a **flat 10%** and social contributions are **withheld from the employee's gross rather than added on top by the employer**. - Central European Time — six hours ahead of US Eastern, giving a four-to-six hour daily overlap across the US morning and early afternoon. Remote since 2019, five of those years for United States companies. ## What he is, in one line A product engineer who has run live subscription, commerce and consent systems, and who has tested opinions about where a model is allowed to decide anything. Not an ML engineer — he does not train or fine-tune models, and says so. ## Scale and outcomes Labelled by what a verifier can do with each. Internal metrics are marked as such rather than implied to be checkable. | | Evidence class | |---|---| | Consent migration and join flow owned on a **100K+ subscriber** platform | Internal; the consent layer itself is externally observable — see below | | Join-flow redesign shipped as a controlled experiment: **~10% lower bounce, 10% fewer interactions to complete, 8.5% higher conversion against the control** | Internal A/B result; design and methodology discussable in interview | | Weekly releases with zero failure tolerance across a **94-repository** estate | Internal | | **10M+ documents** processed on the Symanto psychographic/sentiment platform (2017) | Internal; his role was full-stack engineer on it, corroborated by the signed CTO letter | | Election-night results pipeline over **3,000+ polling stations**, one unrepeatable traffic spike | Public event; the code is not public | | Local-first ambient capture with a daily AI consolidation shift — **capture never calls a model**, ~5,100 LOC of Swift 6 and Python | Public: github.com/bayraak/2ndm1nd-runtime | | 3D configurator rebuild judged against **5,741 captured fixtures**, gated on never rendering the wrong model or quoting the wrong price | Own project | | **50+ compensable workflows** in a live same-day delivery business he co-founded | Own company | | Backend services processing **millions of telco transactions** at Makedonski Telekom | Internal | **One check that can be run right now.** The consent platform claim is about a live site: sunbasket.com serves its consent layer through OneTrust today — `otSDKStub`, cookielaw.org — observable in the page source without asking anyone's permission. Verified 18 August 2026. ## The three things that are rare 1. **Privacy and consent engineering.** Took a US meal-kit platform from legacy opt-out to a nationwide CCPA/CPRA opt-in model: OneTrust unified across a React SPA, a legacy JSP app and WordPress; geo-scoped policy; **Global Privacy Control honored before the tag manager loads**; a consent-aware server-side event pipeline behind a first-party proxy; every regulatory decision delivered to counsel as a written memo. 2. **Real-time media at the browser boundary.** Ported the **H.265 codec to WebAssembly** for in-browser decode in 2019, when WebAssembly had almost no documentation, alongside WebCodecs, WebRTC and a live streaming pipeline for an IP surveillance platform. 3. **Agentic systems — one paid, the rest his own.** The paid example is integration rather than construction, and is described that way deliberately. Owned a customer-facing AI support agent through its whole lifecycle — rollout gated per environment, the content-security-policy work that lets a third-party agent execute inside your own page, vendor migration, clean decommission. Outside work: MCP tool servers built and consumed, and multi-agent orchestration. **On evaluation**, since it decides whether any of the rest can be trusted: the harness came after months of tuning prompts by feel proved half the tricks did nothing measurable. Model version and temperature pinned, run N times, read the distribution — pass@1 for first-try experience, pass^k where every run has to succeed, which is the bar for anything that dispatches a courier or prices an order. Agents scored on the trajectory rather than the final answer: which tools, in what order, with what in context. Where an exact value cannot be asserted, a relation is — paraphrase the request and the numeric decision must not move. A model grades only the irreducible remainder, and only while its agreement with a human-labelled set holds; when that drifts it is demoted to a first pass. ## The opinion he will defend A control enforced by instruction eventually gets bypassed, so put the guarantee where there is no code path around it. Global Privacy Control means tracking never starts, so there is nothing to clean up afterwards. The same rule governs his agent work: in a logistics planner he built, a constraint solver stays the only source of numeric truth and the model orchestrates and narrates — it never decides a number. ## Work history | Period | Employer | Role | |---|---|---| | Apr 2021 – present | Sun Basket (United States, remote) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | | Mar 2025 – present | Gobble (United States, remote), sibling brand under the same ownership | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | | Jun 2023 – Feb 2024 | Ministry of Digital Transformation, North Macedonia | ICT Adviser to the Minister (concurrent) | | Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Producement (Estonia, remote) | Full-Stack Product Engineer | | Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | March Networks, engaged via ABUS Security Center (Germany) | Senior Engineer, real-time video | | Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 | Makedonski Telekom, Deutsche Telekom Group | Full-Stack Engineer, e-commerce | | Feb 2017 – Dec 2017 | Symanto, engaged via Technoperia | Full-Stack Engineer, AI analytics | | Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 | Web Factory | Backend intern | Education: BSc Computer Science and Engineering, Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, 2017. MSc at the same faculty, completed 2025 — two degrees held. ## Evidence, and where to check it | Claim | Where it is verifiable | |---|---| | Consent platform, GPC, opt-in migration | https://bayramali.basgul.com/projects#project-02-sun-basket | | H.265 to WebAssembly, in-browser decode | https://bayramali.basgul.com/projects#project-03-march-networks | | AI analytics over 10M+ documents (2017) | https://bayramali.basgul.com/projects#project-01-symanto | | Local-first ambient capture, no model in the capture path | github.com/bayraak/2ndm1nd-runtime — public repository | | ICT Adviser to the Minister, Jun 2023 – Feb 2024 | Cabinet of Dr. Azir Aliu, publicly verifiable officeholder for that period. Held concurrently with the Sun Basket engagement, disclosed as such. Signed letter on ministry letterhead, official registry no. 08-520/3, dated 24 Jan 2024 | | Signed references | Ministry of Digital Transformation; CTO, Symanto Research GmbH; Deutsche Telekom Group — available on request | Where a claim has no public artifact, this document says so rather than implying one. ## Known gaps, stated plainly - **No shipped Chromium or C++ credential.** The nearest evidence is the 2019 WebAssembly codec port. - **Public GitHub understates the work.** The container loading engine with an MCP tool server and the same-day delivery business are private. The exception is public: github.com/bayraak/2ndm1nd-runtime — local-first ambient capture with a daily AI consolidation shift, ~5,100 LOC of Swift 6 and Python, where the privacy guarantee is structural because capture never calls a model. - Not a match for ML research, model training or fine-tuning roles. ## Stack TypeScript, React (Server Components, App Router), Next.js, Node.js, Java/Kotlin (Spring Boot), Python, C#/.NET. PostgreSQL, Segment, PostHog. MCP, tool-using agents, evals. WebAssembly, WebRTC, WebCodecs, Three.js. AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, Terraform, Playwright. ## Contact bayramali@basgul.com — read daily, replies same day.