About

Who does the work

Two lines of work, run by two people. They do not overlap, and that is deliberate.

Uğur İnal portrait

Uğur İnal

Founder · technology strategy and AI systems

Uğur runs the software services and the corporate side. He builds AI systems in production rather than in slide decks, co-founded Fjordland Group in New Zealand where he serves as interim CFO and CIO, and leads technical execution at Waka Research.

  • Co-founder and interim CFO/CIO at Fjordland Group, New Zealand — led the finance function through a Series A round.
  • Technical lead at Waka Research, an R&D company working in orbital sensing, autonomous systems and AI.
  • Winner, New Zealand National Science Challenge (Land and Water), 2024; co-author on a Massey University and AgResearch publication.

[email protected] · LinkedIn

Gizem Güney portrait

Gizem Güney

Founder · backend-leaning full-stack developer

Gizem runs the entire workshop programme, which is Turkish-language and entry-level: for people who have never written code. She is a backend-leaning full-stack developer and does the work she teaches. She does not take part in the software services line.

Full background (in Turkish)

The company

Both lines operate under Waka Digital Limited, a New Zealand company (NZBN 9429033751610, company number 1885497), registered at 53 Emmerdale Place, Ohauiti, Tauranga 3112, Yeni Zelanda.

Consumer contract, privacy and refund terms are published in Turkish, since workshop customers are in Türkiye: distance sales · privacy · refunds.