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BrK / DIGITAL UNIVERSE SYSTEM ONLINE

BORN IN 1987 · CONNECTED TO HIS DIGITAL UNIVERSE IN 1999

BURAK KARAKUŞ

Builds systems.Designs worlds.Leaves stories behind.

A living digital archive where technology leadership, artificial intelligence, design and literature intersect in one mind.

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ROLECTO · BAROK YAPI

JOURNEY1999 — 2026

LOCATIONKOCAELİ · TR

IDENTITY COREEST. 1987 / ONLINE 1999

KOCAELİ / TR

ORIGIN_GÖLCÜK

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ABOUT_FILE / BRK_1987

Not one title, but three fields of creation feeding one another.

A 27-year journey with computers becoming working systems, visual worlds and printed stories.

ROLE: CTO · BAROK YAPI
JOURNEY: 1999 — 2026
LOCATION: KOCAELİ · TR

Enter the story↓

NOW / 2026

Current records.

This universe archives the past while keeping the present alive.

01LIVE / 2026

Technology leadership

Barok Yapı

CTO since 2025, leading technology vision, digital transformation and intelligent systems.↗

02LIVE / 2026

Approaching publication

Mavi

A psychological crime novel moving through murder, loss, memory and guilt.↗

03LIVE / 2026

Thought archive

15 posts · 3 channels

Turkish and English records across technology, literature and daily life.↗

04LIVE / 2026

Digital journey

27 years

A curiosity that began with Windows 95 and expands through generative AI.↗

THREE WORLDS / ONE IDENTITY

Everything I create lives where three worlds intersect.

001 / CORE DISCIPLINE

Technology

AI, technology leadership and working systems that move organisations into the future.View systems↗

002 / CORE DISCIPLINE

Design

A visual language that turns ideas into clear, memorable and living digital experiences.Explore design projects↗

003 / CORE DISCIPLINE

Literature

Stories seeking the human, loss, memory and darkness through novels and thought records.Open archive↗

PARALLEL UNIVERSES

Other digital stops from the same mind.

COOL.NET.TR / OTHER UNIVERSECool.net.tr — Exit the simulation↗BAROK YAPI / DIGITALBarok Yapı — Digital identity↗TECRİT EDEBİYAT / ARCHIVETecrit Edebiyat — Publishing archive↗

TIMELINE / 1987—2026

Production records of a life.

Every stop opened into another world; curiosity and the urge to create kept the connection alive.

1987

Origin

Born in Gölcük, Kocaeli.

01 / 05

SELECTED WORK

From idea to working system.

Selected fields of production across technology, design and artificial intelligence.

PROJECT / BYT-001

ByTekno — Becoming the Practitioner

ByTekno is the independent venture that moved years of management and technology experience into a hands-on role across web design, digital business cards and graphic production.Open file ↗

PROJECT / BAR-003

Barok Yapı — Digital Institutionalisation

The ongoing CTO-led programme at Barok Yapı spans the website, digital content standards, corporate visibility and the foundations for future intelligent systems.Open file ↗

PROJECT / LIT-004

Literature and Publications

The path from Lâl to Mavi continues through poems published in Tecrit Edebiyat Dergisi, occasional magazine writing and the growing thought archive at burakkarakus.com.Open file ↗

LITERATURE / THREE FILES

From a farewell to a murder, then to a secret that reveals nothing but its name.

Lâl can now be read on this site. Mavi is preparing to meet readers in 2026. Berrak waits for the right moment inside its own silence.Open the library→

2016 / PUBLISHED

Lâl

A personal farewell completed on the pages of a book when ordinary language was no longer enough.Read Lâl now↗

2026 / APPROACHING PUBLICATION

Mavi

Some dead never return. It is the minds of those left behind that bring them back.Enter the Mavi file↗

CLASSIFIED PROJECT

Berrak

No one knows where love ends and murder begins.Open file↗

CURRENTLY READING

An open channel to the next sentence.

My reading list keeps moving; some books reshape what I write, others reshape how I see the world.

novel file / 2026

Record: In Mavi's shadow

As Mavi approaches publication, I am rereading the borders between memory, guilt and crime fiction.

Yapay zekâ ve edebiyatın kesiştiği karanlık bir çalışma masası

STORY ENGINE / HUMAN + MACHINE

Code builds the system. Story gives it a reason.

In my world, artificial intelligence is not merely a tool and literature is not merely an escape. Both are different ways of understanding the human being.

LAB / OPEN EXPERIMENTS

Where ideas are tested.

Small experiments bringing artificial intelligence, design and narrative to the same table.

01AI / STORY

Story engine

Exploring how an idea can become character, scene and rhythm with AI.

OPEN_EXPERIMENT ↗

02DESIGN / SYSTEM

Interface rhythm

Designing digital surfaces where people do not disappear between type, motion and silence.

OPEN_EXPERIMENT ↗

03IMAGE / MEMORY

Visual memory

Adding digital lines to a photograph and carrying a personal archive into a new layer.

OPEN_EXPERIMENT ↗

BERRAK / SEALED_FILE_03

Some secrets are not explained; they wait for the right moment.

Berrak is the file that follows Lâl and Mavi. For now, we know only its direction and darkness.Inspect the sealed file↗

SELECTED THOUGHT RECORDS

Three posts from three channels.

Technology, literature and daily life touch one another in the same archive.

TECHNOLOGY & FUTURE / 7 MIN

Remaining human in the age of AI

Why the qualities that make us human become more, not less, important as machines grow more capable.Read article ↗

LITERATURE / 7 MIN READ

The invisible architecture of a novel

Writing notes on how character, rhythm, silence and information flow create the hidden plan of a novel.Read article ↗

DAILY LIFE & OBSERVATIONS / 6 MIN

The silence of a home filled with books

How books change a home, the memory of reading corners and the productive side of silence.Read article ↗

View all 15 posts→

1999 yılında başlayan bilgisayar yolculuğunu temsil eden çalışma odası

SHORT STORY / 1987 — 2026

A journey that began with one computer and opened into different worlds.

Birth, earthquake, first computer, first book, independent venture and technology leadership. Every seemingly separate stop is connected by the same urge to create.