Sedat Kapanoglu

Sedat Kapanoglu is a self-taught software developer. He was born in Turkey to parents from former Yugoslavia. He wrote his first program on an 8-bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ when he was nine. After learning BASIC, Assembly, and Pascal, he dropped his plans to study at college to work on software development professionally. During his career that spans decades, he's worked on a broad range of software projects including GUI frameworks, medical applications, BBS doors, FidoNet tools, online games, hardware drivers, e-commerce, networking, and finance. He founded Eksi Sozluk in 1999, the most popular Turkish social platform in the world to date. He worked at Microsoft as a software engineer in Windows team for five years. He quit Microsoft to keep working on his platform. Today, he spends his time in San Francisco Bay Area, being upset at mobile apps taking over the web solely because they've been made easier to add to home screen.