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Arda Erturk

CTO

📍 Toronto, ON

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Serial founder with experience in crypto, AI, and consumer tech. Building machines.cash (agentic payments + crypto credit cards) and Interspace (wallet, account/key management, account abstraction, and privacy‑preserving profiles)

Skills

Startup Leadership9/10
Product Management9/10
Blockchain/Web38/10
LLM/AI Agents8/10
Software Engineering8/10
AI Automation (8/10)Growth & Operations (8/10)Payments Infrastructure (7/10)Python (7/10)Rust (7/10)TypeScript (7/10)Crypto Wallets (7/10)Data Science (7/10)E-commerce (7/10)Go (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)Machine Learning (7/10)Account Abstraction (7/10)Statistics (7/10)Smart Contracts (6/10)

Work Experience

Cofounder & CTO

machines.cash

Jan 2025Present

B2C crypto credit building and agentic payments. Built agentic shopping bot that creates single-use credit cards and browses/checks out end-to-end. Building internal AI automations for support, feedback loops, and UI iteration. Tying LLM agents into real financial rails (cards, payments, constraints).

Cofounder & CTO

Interspace

Jan 2025Present

B2C crypto wallet with account abstraction and smart profiles. Building consumer wallet product with account abstraction.

Founder & CEO

Bonfire

Jan 2023Dec 2024

B2B e-commerce AI chatbot backed by Z Fellows. Built e-commerce AI chatbot platform, digital fingerprinting for personalized recommendations. Focused on merchant outcomes: conversion, AOV, and support deflection.

Founder & Engineering Lead

DAOhub

Jan 2023Dec 2023

DAO marketplace. Built and sold the product.

Cofounder & Head of Growth and Operations

Roll Scooters

Jan 2019Dec 2023

B2C shared e-scooter startup that reached Series A. Launched in 9 cities including Ottawa and Calgary. Grew to $2M+ ARR in ~2 years with 100K+ users. Operated across product, growth, city launches, and execution.

Software Engineering Intern

Scotiabank

Jan 2017Dec 2018

Education

University of Toronto

BSc · Mathematics and Statistics with specialization in Machine Learning and Data Science

20162021