Co-founder · GOGOGO LLC
Atakan Özalan
aka Atakan Özalan · Atakan Ozalan · Ata Özalan · Ata Ozalan · Ezagor · ezagor
Engineering & AI lead — building multi-agent systems that ship.
I'm Atakan Özalan — co-founder of GOGOGO LLC and the engineer behind our multi-agent stack. Online I've gone by Ezagor for years and most people still find me there; I'm letting the handle and the real name share the stage for now.
NOW
Building this quarter.
GoTrack ↔ GoVista bridge — the vision agent detects what product a customer is engaging with on the shelf, and the nearest signage screen flips to matching content in under 200 ms.
Retrieval rerankers for GoTrack's vision pipeline: FAISS + a cross-encoder, latency under 80 ms p95.
An observability layer that makes every hand-off, tool call, and score replayable for the whole agent graph.
I've been delegating to machines since 2002. At four, I taught myself to install Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and played it for years without speaking the language on screen. The lesson was simple: read the screen carefully and the machine works for you.
By primary school I was running my own Metin 2 PvP server, learned to edit items in software, and made my first money from machines — my family thought I was just the top student. I borrowed my brother's identity in every tournament; my real voice would have given me away as a child.
In high school I learned SketchUp in a single day and started rendering customers' homes the next morning at my family's decoration company (fish nets, wallpaper, natural stones). And from 2015–2016, I wrote XML / AIML for the chatbot menu flows and all the conversational content of Turkcell BiP Messenger.
I never read children's books — adult personal improvement at six, then space, history, religion, philosophy, psychology. Reading was the price of computer time and I paid it eagerly.
University was computer engineering with a parallel business-life track. For five or six years I almost never spoke — I always felt I wasn't ready. I read I Ching, Jung, Freud in that period.
I shipped a real project in thirteen programming languages — C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, VB.NET, Assembly, MATLAB. Otherwise I don't claim to know it.
I ran chatbot workflows across Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp, and product management on whatever else needed shipping. In 2019 I built an AR marketplace on Google Glass 2. I only started speaking again after I'd learned, practiced, and seen results.
Today I work on GOGOGO's multi-agent runtime — Goddo, GoPeople, GoVista, GoTrack. The agents are my students, crews, brothers, sisters, brains, researchers, citizens.
I research every day; Web3 and decentralization interest me for the same reason multi-agent does — no single brain owning the truth. The shadow stage of the handle lives at ezagor.com; find me on Medium as @ezagor, code at github.com/Ezagor-dev, mail [email protected].
Obsessions
What I think about, daily.
These aren't framings I borrow from work — they're things I've trained myself with, year after year. The work is downstream.
01MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
Intelligence isn't singular. Brains do it. Ecosystems do it. Cities do it. A council of specialists with rules and trust, not one big mind. Multi-agent is just the rediscovery of that, in code. And I don't follow Asimov's three laws — I write contracts that emerge from the work.
02CONDUCTING THE MACHINES
I can write code in thirteen languages — C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, VB.NET, Assembly, MATLAB. I ship in a handful of them now. The rest stay sharp because I refuse to be deaf in any room where machines are talking.
03UX PRINCIPLES
How something feels matters more than what it does. Latency is part of how it feels. Honesty is part of how it feels. The interface isn't what the user sees — it's what they end up trusting.
04GREAT CODE PRINCIPLES
I trust boring code more than I trust myself. Code is a contract with future-me; if she can't read it at 3 a.m., I betrayed her. Replayable everything. Typed at every edge. Never irreversible without a human in the loop.
05JUNG & FREUD
Jung and Freud aren't bedtime reading — they're the operating manual for the mind I'm trying to use every day. Archetypes, shadow, projection, repression. The engineering world will catch up to them in another decade.
06I CHING
Sixty-four hexagrams. A four-thousand-year-old field guide for how things change. I don't read it as divination — I read it as a designer reading a manual. The mystic keeps humbling the designer.
07SIMULATION THEORY
I don't argue about whether we're in one. I argue that we're each running several — every model trained, every game played, every story told to a child. The interesting question is which simulation is the master one.
08QUANTUM
Superposition and the observer effect aren't physics tricks — they're descriptions of how reality flickers when you start paying attention. I'm not a physicist. I'm someone who keeps noticing the same shape under different names.
09FREQUENCY
Everything that holds together vibrates at some rate. Bodies. Brains. Teams. Ideas. Most things are out of tune with each other. Half the work — in code and in life — is tuning.
10HOOK MODELS
Trigger, action, reward, investment. Eyal's hook is the structure of every habit anyone has ever formed — including all the bad ones. I use it because I want to know I'm using it, and not the other way around.
11DON'T CONSUME — PRODUCE
Consumption is anesthesia. Production is the only proof I have that I'm awake. I read so I can build. I watch so I can shoot. The day I read more than I ship, I owe myself an audit.
12SLEEP IS NOT MY STYLE
The best minutes happen after the city quiets down. I'm not virtuous about it — I just haven't found a way to be honest with the work between 9 and 5.
Path
How we got here.
2002 · age 4
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.
First computer game. I'd just turned four; the menu was in a language I didn't speak. I taught myself to install it, taught myself to play, and then I kept playing — for years. I was good at strategy games. I learned the lesson there: machines will work for you if you read the screen carefully enough. The rest of this list becomes possible on this day.
Primary school
Metin 2 PvP server — first money from machines.
Launched my own Metin 2 PvP server while still in primary school. Learned to edit items in software, started earning real money from it as a kid. Never told my family — they thought I was just the top student. Borrowed my brother's identity in every tournament because my voice would have given me away.
High school
Family company by day, BiP chatbots by night.
Trainee at the family decoration company (fish nets, wallpaper, natural stones). Learned SketchUp in a single day and on day two was rendering customers' homes to scale with our wallpaper collections. In parallel, 2015–2016, I wrote XML / AIML for the menu flows and all conversational content of Turkcell BiP Messenger. Probably the most useful year of my life.
University & business life
Five quiet years and thirteen languages.
Computer engineering degree, almost part-time because I was already running a full business-life track in parallel. For five or six years I almost never spoke — I always felt I wasn't ready. I read I Ching, Jung, Freud. I shipped a real project in C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, VB.NET, Assembly, and MATLAB — otherwise I don't say I know it. Years of chatbot workflows across Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp. Product management on whatever else needed shipping. I started speaking again only after I'd learned, practiced, and seen the result.
2019
Google Glass 2 marketplace.
An AR experience on Google Glass 2 — a paid two-sided marketplace where a phone-user could hire a glass-wearer in another city for hands-on errands (shopping, navigation, cargo). The Turkey-buyer / Paris-luxury-runner pairing was one demo, not the whole product. Real-time AR on someone's face — a different kind of constraint than anything I'd shipped before.
2023
Co-founded GOGOGO LLC.
Incorporated in Delaware with my brother Okan. The bet from day one: a single multi-agent runtime, four focused products on top. Equal partners, two operating brains.
2024
Goddo on the App Store. GoPeople on WhatsApp.
Shipped Goddo — the consumer creative agent — on iOS. Closed the first B2B customers for GoPeople, the HR agent running end-to-end over WhatsApp. Two surfaces, one runtime, real revenue.
2025
GoVista in production. GoTrack vision live.
GoVista pushing campaigns to thousands of Tizen / WebOS / Android / Windows / Web signage screens in under two seconds. GoTrack fusing computer vision and retrieval to turn camera feeds into bounding boxes and heatmaps in real time. The four-product family complete — all on the same multi-agent engine.
Toolkit
What I actually use, daily.
If you're trying to build something similar — start here. Tools I reach for without thinking, because they earned it under load.
01NEXT.JS 16 (APP ROUTER)
Marketing + internal tooling + the AI Gateway side of every product.
02TYPESCRIPT EVERYWHERE
Agent hand-offs are typed contracts; no model decides a schema for me.
03PYTHON + FASTAPI
Agent backends, eval harnesses, ETL — anywhere the JS ecosystem gets in the way.
04VERCEL AI GATEWAY
One provider-neutral surface for Claude + OpenAI; failover and cost tracking built in.
05FAISS + CROSS-ENCODER RERANK
Bi-encoder for recall, cross-encoder for precision. Reranker is non-negotiable in production.
06POSTGRES + REDIS
Boring is good. State of the agent graph lives in tables, not in a model's context window.
07CUSTOM ORCHESTRATION RUNTIME
No heavy framework. Specialists, typed hand-offs, replayable traces, kill-switch per node.
08EVAL HARNESS (IN-REPO)
Every agent has a regression suite. If it doesn't pass the suite, it doesn't ship — even if the demo looked good.
09OPENTELEMETRY → GRAFANA
Every tool call, score, and hand-off is a span. Debugging at 3am is bearable because of this.
10RAILWAY + CLOUDFLARE
Containers + edge with no platform-team overhead. This personal site runs on this same stack.
What I work on
Four products. One multi-agent engine.
Every GOGOGO product is the same multi-agent foundation pointed at a different business surface. Here's how I think about each one from the engineering side.
Goddo
The creative agent. Goddo orchestrates image and video generation, prompt rewriting, and a wizard-style retry loop — all behind a mobile-first iOS UX.
GoPeople
The HR agent. GoPeople routes leave requests, surveys, documents, and announcements through WhatsApp end-to-end — observable, traceable, reversible.
GoVista
The signage agent. GoVista pushes campaigns to thousands of Tizen / WebOS / Android / Windows / Web screens in under two seconds, with rollback on every change.
GoTrack
The vision agent. GoTrack fuses computer vision and retrieval to turn camera feeds into bounding boxes, heatmaps, hold-time, and conversion intel — in real time.
Selected writing
Recent notes.
Long-form thinking on the same stack I build with day to day. Live on the GOGOGO blog and Medium.
FAQ
Common questions.
What people most often ask before reaching out.
- Who is Atakan Özalan?
- Co-founder of GOGOGO LLC and the engineer behind the company's multi-agent stack. Equal partner with my brother Okan. Based in Istanbul, Türkiye; company registered in Newark, Delaware (EIN 30-1390520).
- When did you start coding?
- Four years old, in 2002 — I taught myself to install Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and played it for years without knowing the language on the screen. Strategy first, then scripts. By primary school I was running my own Metin 2 PvP server and editing items in software for it — the first money of my life came from machines. From 2015–2016 in high school I wrote XML / AIML for the menu flows and conversational content of Turkcell BiP Messenger. The through-line — make machines work for you, then make them collaborators — has been the same since age four.
- What is GOGOGO LLC?
- A Delaware-incorporated AI agent systems company building four products — Goddo, GoPeople, GoVista, GoTrack — on a single multi-agent runtime. We operate with engineering arm GOTONOM A.Ş. in Istanbul. Founded 2023 by Okan and me as equal partners.
- What were you doing before GOGOGO?
- Computer engineering degree, earned mostly at night while I was already working. From 2015 onward I lived inside chatbots: AIML at Turkcell BiP Messenger, then years of conversational workflows across Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and WhatsApp, plus product management on whatever else needed shipping. In 2019 I built an AR experience on Google Glass 2 — a paid two-sided marketplace where a phone-user could hire a glass-wearer in another city for hands-on errands (shopping, navigation, cargo). The Turkey-buyer / Paris-luxury-runner pairing was one demo, not the whole product. Somewhere in the university years I also wrote an AI-driven racing game in the spirit of Need for Speed. GOGOGO's agent stack is the direct continuation of all of that work.
- What do you actually build day to day?
- Multi-agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, evals, and production LLM systems. In practice: the code behind GOGOGO's four products, plus the internal observability and eval tooling that lets us ship them with confidence.
- What stack do you use?
- Next.js 16 + TypeScript on the web; Python + FastAPI for agent backends; Claude and OpenAI through the Vercel AI Gateway; FAISS plus a cross-encoder reranker for retrieval; Postgres and Redis for state; OpenTelemetry into Grafana for observability; Railway + Cloudflare for deploy and edge. See the Toolkit section for the full list.
- Why do you go by Ezagor?
- Ezagor (lowercase, with an 'e') is the online handle I've used since 2002 — across MMO servers, forums, Discord, Web3 testnets, and now Medium and GitHub. It pre-dates GOGOGO LLC by two decades. atakanozalan.com is the named, visible identity; ezagor.com is the same person's online handle. One human, deliberately kept as two stages. Not related to the comic-book character Zagor.
- What programming languages do you use?
- I've shipped real production projects in thirteen languages — C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, VB.NET, Assembly, MATLAB. Today most of my work is Python and TypeScript with SQL underneath. The older languages stay sharp because legacy systems at customer sites still run on them.
- Are you hiring?
- We're growing the engineering team in Istanbul — senior backend, applied AI/ML, and platform. If you've shipped multi-agent or retrieval systems in production, email me directly.
- How do I contact you?
- Email [email protected]. I read founder mail myself; usual response time is one business day. For company-level partnership questions, [email protected] also lands on my desk.
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Atakan Özalan
Co-founder · GOGOGO LLC
Istanbul, Türkiye
Company HQ: 112 Capitol Trail Suite A, Newark, DE 19711, USA
EIN 30-1390520