Devrim wrote his first qbasic program at the age of 12. After his college years in the Netherlands, he founded a mobile payments company in Istanbul, Turkey. Devrim served as a CTO for various Startups in Europe and the US, starting to build Koding on the side. In 2011, Devrim and his brother raised significant funding for Koding and opened the HQ in the heart of San Francisco, focussed on building the future of how people write code. Devrim loves TEDtalks, hacking and art.