Fractional Technical Leadership & Team Building
“Technical leadership for startups and stalled projects: CI/CD, code review and automated tests, then a handover to your own team.”
MDSW
“MDSW is an independent technical studio in Istanbul, founded in 2013 by Mehmet Davut. Helping companies build sustainable software and teams.”
Products & services
Applied AI & Trust Architecture
“Small language models trained for your domain, in products where AI only assists people and accounting runs on approved data. Mostly B2B fintech.”
System Modernization & FinOps
“Moving hand-managed cloud infrastructure to Terraform, moving live APIs from REST to GraphQL, and cutting cloud costs to extend runway.”
Questions & answers
What is MDSW?
“MDSW (Mehmet Davut Software Works) is an independent technical studio in Istanbul, founded in 2013. Helping companies build sustainable software and teams. It builds its own products and takes on technical partnership work with founders.”
Who is Mehmet Davut?
“Mehmet Davut is the software engineer who founded MDSW. He has been writing software since 2003, professionally since 2007, and independently through MDSW since 2013. He holds three master's degrees from Istanbul Bilgi University and researches small language models. ORCID: 0000-0001-9787-4588.”
How does an engagement with MDSW work?
“I own the architecture, the infrastructure and the engineering decisions, and keep the accounts and the documentation in the company's name. The engagement succeeds when the company can run its technical side without me.”
Where is MDSW based?
“In Istanbul, Türkiye. I work remotely with companies in Türkiye, the EU, Canada and the US, in English or Turkish.”
Company details
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- Entity ID
- urn:readyscan:entity:mdsw-q141559838
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- fnv1a64:bfa44dab977309bd
- Published
- 2026-10-25
- Modified
- 2026-10-25
- Source summary
- MDSW: “MDSW is an independent technical studio in Istanbul, founded in 2013 by Mehmet Davut. Helping companies build sustainable software and teams.”