A team of five
Our founders, İlker Karakaya and Hasan Gürhan Kulaçoğlu, will relocate to Doha. They will work full-time for the Qatar company for at least the first 24 months. From the start, at least four people will work in Doha, including two farm workers hired locally.
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İlker Karakaya
Co-founder and CEO
Managing director of İnterno, which he co-founded in 2011. He has more than 20 years of experience in security, IoT and automation engineering.
Project manager of TÜBİTAK project 3220859. Leads the system and technology architecture.
Engineering degree, Karadeniz Technical University (2001).
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Hasan Gürhan Kulaçoğlu
Co-founder, operations and manufacturing
Leads operations and manufacturing, and runs technical work at the Doha farm at first.
Managed Kulaçoğlu Information Technologies from 1998 to 2016.
Studied industrial engineering at Gazi University (1989–1993) and international trade and logistics at Anadolu University (2021–2025).
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Erdem Berk Şimşek
Agronomist
Full-time with the team since May 2023.
Studied soil science and plant nutrition at Ankara University (2018–2022).
Interned in 2021 at TAGEM, the agricultural research directorate of Türkiye's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
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Taha Buğra Göl
Electronics engineer
Designs our embedded controllers and writes their firmware.
Embedded-systems engineer since 2022: STM32, FreeRTOS, Modbus and MQTT.
Studied electrical and electronics engineering at Atatürk University (2018–2022).
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Burçin Erkan
Computer engineer
With Interfarm since 2024.
More than 25 years in IT, security systems and public-sector sales, including five years as a public sales director.
Studied applied mathematics and computer science at Eastern Mediterranean University (1990–1996).