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title: "Furkan Bayraktar · Engineering Team Lead at Lovable"
description: "I lead engineering teams at Lovable in Stockholm. Before that I was co-founder and CTO of Scrintal for five years, and I co-developed Polylith."
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# Furkan Bayraktar

Engineering Team Lead at Lovable

I lead engineering teams at [Lovable](https://lovable.dev), an AI-powered platform for building web apps and websites, based in Stockholm. I joined in January 2026.

Before that I co-founded [Scrintal](https://scrintal.com), a visual canvas for connecting notes and ideas, and spent five years as its CTO. Earlier I worked at a creative agency in Stockholm and built mobile apps in Istanbul.

I co-developed [Polylith](https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith), a software architecture that applies functional thinking at the system scale.

I write about building software on the [writing](https://furkanbayraktar.com/writing) page. The longer story is on the [about](https://furkanbayraktar.com/about) page.

## Selected writing

- [The Wrong Question About Type Systems](https://furkanbayraktar.com/writing/the-wrong-question-about-type-systems) (2025-12-14, 10 min read): After 8 years of Clojure, the 'don't you miss types?' question stopped making sense. It's not safety vs. danger. It's discipline vs. enforcement, and the cost of coordination.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/furkan3ayraktar)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/furkanbayraktar)
- [X](https://x.com/furkan3ayraktar)