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Mahsum Aktaş

Building AI systems that run real operations.

Operations manager turned AI builder. I run a team of 8 managing 400+ bus companies at oBilet — and I build the AI tools we use daily. From a production agent on a Raspberry Pi to my own Turkish LLM, I bridge the gap between business operations and applied AI.

Building

Open Source

31 PRs across 8 repositories. Contributor to OpenClaw — fixing production bugs in the gateway, TLS config, model fallback chains. Also contributed to simili-bot, simonw/llm, and others.

Chrome Extensions

Writing

2026-04

From 50 Tools to 3 Write Channels

How reducing an AI agent's toolkit made it dramatically smarter.

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Journey

2016Started as the 15th employee at a bus ticketing startup
2017Team Lead
2018Supervisor
2019CX Manager — started automating with Google Apps Script
2020Operational Account Manager — first Python scripts
2022Operations Manager — built the department from scratch
2024Senior Operations Manager — running AI-powered operations with a team of 8 across 400+ bus companies
mahsum@mahsumaktas.com