Mert Akay
Founder · Full-stackBuilds the front edge of the stack — React, Next.js, the TALL stack. Started Corevelay in 2023 after seven years at product studios in Istanbul and Amsterdam.
05 / who we are
Three people and a server rack.
Corevelay is a small team in Istanbul. We work directly with founders and operators — no account managers, no handovers. The engineer who scopes your project is the engineer who ships it.
— the team
Berk Soyuk
Engineer · Infra & securityRuns the metal we host on, hardens the servers, watches the logs. The reason the lights stay on. Previously SRE at a fintech with 24/7 uptime requirements.
Naz Yılmaz
Engineer · Mobile & productDesigns and ships the iOS and Android side. Cares deeply about the small details — gesture timing, system fonts, the keyboard not jumping. Based in Amsterdam.
— collaborators
Close circle.
We work regularly with a small circle of independent designers, brand consultants, and copywriters when a project needs it. Same studio mindset, paid by the project.
Aslı Demir
Brand & identity
Jakob Krause
Product design
Ece Çelik
Copy & narrative
— how we work
Six projects a year
We decline more than we take.
No subcontractors
The engineer who scoped it ships it.
Fixed price where possible
Hourly only when the brief truly can't be scoped.
We run the server
Infrastructure is part of the deliverable.
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