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title: "About · Furkan Bayraktar"
description: "Software engineer leading engineering teams at Lovable. Previously co-founded and ran Scrintal for five years. Co-developer of Polylith."
canonical: "https://furkanbayraktar.com/about"
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# About

## Now

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.

## Scrintal

From 2020 to 2025 I was co-founder and CTO of [Scrintal](https://scrintal.com), a visual canvas for connecting notes and ideas. I built the product from scratch over five years: real-time collaboration on CRDTs, custom rich text editing, more than 300,000 lines of Clojure and ClojureScript, tens of thousands of users, and $1.5M in revenue on $2M raised.

I am still a board member.

## Earlier

From 2017 to 2021 I was Head of Tech at [House of Radon](https://www.valtechradon.com/) (now Valtech Radon), a creative agency in Stockholm.

Before that I was Lead Application Developer at [Nova](https://www.novatalent.com/) from 2016 to 2017, and a software engineer at [Valensas](https://valensas.com/) in Istanbul from 2013 to 2016, building Android and iOS apps and the backends behind them.

I studied at [Koç University](https://www.ku.edu.tr/) in Istanbul from 2009 to 2014, a double major: BSc in Computer Engineering and BSc in Business Administration.

## Open source

- [Polylith](https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith) (2017): A software architecture that applies functional thinking at the system scale. Co-developer since 2017, with Joakim Tengstrand and James Trunk; long-time contributor to the poly tool and its ecosystem.
- [Polylith for Clojure(Script)](https://github.com/polyfy/polylith) (2019): The poly tool: development tooling for Polylith workspaces in Clojure and ClojureScript.
- [Clojure RealWorld example app](https://github.com/furkan3ayraktar/clojure-polylith-realworld-example-app) (2018): The canonical Polylith reference project: a RealWorld backend built with Clojure, Polylith, and Ring.

## Talks & podcasts

- [Polylith](https://open.spotify.com/episode/15vB9Cyug2UM7B62lTl0UC) (2026): On Polylith and how it evolved, on the defn podcast with Joakim Tengstrand.
- [Scrintal with Furkan](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e70-scrintal-with-furkan/id1461500416?i=1000560425928) (2022): On building Scrintal with Clojure, on the ClojureStream podcast.
- [On Clojure, Polylith, and Software Development](https://blog.scrintal.com/on-clojure-polylith-and-software-development-an-interview-with-a-startup-cto-8a46bb049547) (2021): An interview on the Scrintal blog about Clojure, Polylith, and working as a startup CTO.
- [Polylith with Joakim, James, and Furkan (Part 2)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-e22-polylith-with-joakim-james-and-furkan-part-2/id1461500416?i=1000507542984) (2021): The poly tool and the RealWorld example app, on the ClojureStream podcast.
- [Polylith with Joakim, James, and Furkan (Part 1)](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s4-e21-polylith-with-joakim-james-and-furkan-part-1/id1461500416?i=1000505948894) (2021): The ideas behind Polylith, on the ClojureStream podcast with Joakim Tengstrand and James Trunk.
- [Polylith - the last architecture you will ever need](https://youtu.be/pebwHmibla4) (2020): Introducing Polylith at the Func Prog Sweden meetup, with Joakim Tengstrand.