# Fatih Baltacı

> Fatih Baltacı is the founder and CEO of Gurubase, which builds AI agents that cite their sources, and Siper, a Turkish PII masking gateway. He co-founded Ddosify (Anteon), whose open-source tools passed one million Docker pulls.

For ten years I have turned research into production systems, from computer vision to open-source infrastructure to trustworthy AI. Gurubase turns a company’s documents and tools into AI agents that cite every answer, attach a trust score, and decline when the evidence is thin, and it runs fully air-gapped for regulated industries. Before that I co-founded Ddosify, later Anteon, whose open-source performance tools passed one million Docker pulls and 8,500 GitHub stars.

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## Facts

- Companies: Ddosify Yazılım Teknolojileri A.Ş., ODTÜ Teknokent, Ankara, founded 2021. Ddosify Inc., Delaware, United States, doing business as Gurubase.
- Products: Gurubase and Siper, sold to enterprises. Anteon and Alaz, open source.
- Investors: e2vc, formerly 500 Emerging Europe, which invested in Ddosify in 2022 and lists Gurubase in its second fund.
- Programs: NVIDIA Inception and Microsoft for Startups. TÜBİTAK BiGG 1512 entrepreneurship grant, 2021–2022.
- Recognition: European Commission Seal of Excellence, EIC Pre-Accelerator, 2026. Grand Prize and KoçSistem Special Award, METU Yeni Fikirler Yeni İşler, 2021.
- Open source: 9,200+ GitHub stars across Anteon and Alaz. 1.19 million pulls of the Ddosify image.
- Education: MSc in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University. BSc in Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University.
- United States: O‑1A visa, approved in November 2024.

## Work

- [Gurubase](https://gurubase.io/) (2024–present): An AI agent platform for company knowledge. Agents answer from sources such as Confluence, Jira, Zendesk and Google Drive, show the passages they used, score their own confidence and refuse when the context is weak. They can also call APIs and run actions. Customers choose managed cloud in the EU or Türkiye, their own cloud, or a fully air-gapped install with self-hosted models.
- [Siper](https://siper.gurubase.ai/) (2026–present): Masks personal data in Turkish text before it reaches a language model, covering 26 categories including the special categories of KVKK, Türkiye’s data protection law. It runs on servers in Istanbul as an API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway or an MCP server. The masking model was fine-tuned for Turkish.
- [Anteon, formerly Ddosify](https://github.com/getanteon/anteon) (2021–2024): Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing. It began as Ddosify, a load-testing engine written in Go, and grew into a platform that uses eBPF to map traffic between services without code changes. It gathered 2,443 GitHub stars in its first month, and I am its largest contributor by commits.
- [Alaz](https://github.com/getanteon/alaz) (2023–2024): An eBPF agent that watches service-to-service traffic inside Kubernetes clusters without sidecars, code changes or restarts. It has 712 GitHub stars and is listed in the eBPF Foundation’s application landscape.

## Press

- [Euronews Türkçe: Hiç konuşmayan yapay zeka Jev, viral oldu: Teknolojinin geleceğini değiştirebilir mi?](https://tr.euronews.com/2026/09/21/hic-konusmayan-yapay-zeka-jev-viral-oldu-teknolojinin-gelecegini-degistirebilir-mi) (2026-09-21)
- [kode24: Lover 39 ganger raskere Docker-bygg: «Førsteinntrykket er supert!»](https://www.kode24.no/artikkel/lover-39-ganger-raskere-docker-bygg-forsteinntrykket-er-supert/194539) (2024-01-24)
- [egirişim: Yük testleri ve performans testleri yapan Ddosify, 500 Emerging Europe'dan yatırım aldı](https://egirisim.com/2022/10/24/yuk-testleri-ve-performans-testleri-yapan-ddosify-500-emerging-europedan-yatirim-aldi/) (2022-10-24)
- [Webrazzi: Performans testlerine odaklanan Ddosify, 500 Emerging Europe'dan yatırım aldı](https://webrazzi.com/2022/10/18/performans-testlerine-odaklanan-ddosify-500-emerging-europe-dan-yatirim-aldi/) (2022-10-18)
- [Enis Hulli, 500 Emerging Europe: Ddosify: No Code Distributed Observability Platform](https://enis.medium.com/ddosify-no-code-distributed-observability-platform-c546549cacf) (2022-10-18)
- [Global Private Capital Association: 500 Emerging Europe Invests in Turkey's Ddosify](https://www.globalprivatecapital.org/newsroom/500-emerging-europe-invests-in-turkeys-ddosify/) (2022-10-18)
- [Anadolu Ajansı: Geleceğe iz bırakacak teknoloji projeleri yarıştı](https://www.aa.com.tr/tr/bilim-teknoloji/gelecege-iz-birakacak-teknoloji-projeleri-yaristi/2450370) (2021-12-17)
- [Webrazzi: ODTÜ TEKNOKENT, Arçelik Garage ve KWORKS'ün ortaklığında yürütülen BiGG3'ün kazanan girişimleri](https://webrazzi.com/2021/08/18/odtu-teknokent-arcelik-garage-ve-kworksun-ortakliginda-yurutulen-bigg3un-kazanan-girisimleri/) (2021-08-18)
- [LinuxLinks: Anteon: eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing platform](https://www.linuxlinks.com/anteon-ebpf-based-kubernetes-monitoring-performance-testing-platform/) (2026-02-26)
- [GitBook: Changelog: a new Gurubase integration](https://docs.gitbook.com/changelog/march-2025/4-march-new-link-styles-broken-url-insights-a-new-integration-and-more) (2025-03-04)
- [Insider Engineering: Implementing Shift-Left Performance Testing in Insider Infrastructure](https://medium.com/insiderengineering/implementing-shift-left-performance-testing-in-insider-infrastructure-bf643735eeae) (2023-07-18)
- [Pelado Nerd (YouTube): Probando Ddosify: Load Testing y QA gratis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvOSHqIuPsM) (2023-07-11)
- [DevOps & AI Toolkit (YouTube): Performance Testing: What? Why? How? When? (with Ddosify Examples)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhZ3YStdaQs) (2023-05-29)
- [Tom Smykowski, Medium: 5 Awesome Go Projects To Know Before You Die](https://tomaszs2.medium.com/5-awesome-go-projects-to-know-before-you-die-b05355ed75e4) (2023-05-04)
- [Red Hat Architect: Dynamically manage Kubernetes applications to improve network latency](https://www.redhat.com/architect/latency-driven-service-orchestration) (2023-02-23)
- [Docker Blog: New Extensions, Improved logs, and more in Docker Desktop 4.10](https://www.docker.com/blog/new-extensions-improved-logs-and-more-in-docker-desktop-4-10/) (2022-06-30)
- [Software Testing Weekly: Issue #93: Ddosify, high-performance load testing tool](https://softwaretestingweekly.com/issues/93/) (2021-10-15)
- [LinkedIn: Türkçede kişisel veri maskeleme neden zor?](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7ede-ki%C5%9Fisel-veri-maskeleme-neden-zor-gurubase-siper-baltaci-uj1gf) (2026-08-04)
- [Gurubase Blog: AI Hallucinations: real risks and how to prevent them](https://gurubase.io/blog/2026/ai-hallucinations-real-risks-and-how-to-prevent-them/) (2026-03-02)
- [Docker Blog: Enabling a No-Code Performance Testing Platform Using the Ddosify Docker Extension](https://www.docker.com/blog/no-code-performance-testing-using-ddosify-extension/) (2023-03-28)
- [Red Hat Blog: How to measure and use network latency data to improve 5G user experience](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/5g-network-latency) (2022-10-06)

## Talks

- [Daha İyi Yargı Derneği: Türk Hukuk Yapay Zekası Sohbetleri #32, live conversation on AI for Turkish law](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y35_cTGn4zI) (2026-09-30)
- [Türkiye Yapay Zeka İnisiyatifi: AI in Law webinar, session two: masking personal data before a model sees it](https://kariyerpusulan.com/programlar/trai-hukukta-yapay-zeka-webinari-2-oturum-2026) (2026-09-29)
- [TRT Radyo 1, Kolektif Zeka: How far can we trust AI? Hallucinations, RAG and human oversight](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7497967174372798465/) (2026-08-25)
- [Zeka & Zincir 3 (KamuYZ, Istanbul Blockchain Women): Panel on algorithmic transparency and a trustworthy AI ecosystem in Türkiye](https://luma.com/559ywqtw) (2026-05-13)
- [Türkiye Yapay Zeka Zirvesi 2025: Gurubase pitch at the BAŞLAT LLM Demo Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcstU1FsvMs&t=2649s) (2025-10-23)
- [KCD Istanbul 2024: Interview on Anteon and eBPF observability for Is It Observable](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V0I5ygZz3Q&t=1081s) (2024-05-15)
- [DevOps Paradox #222: Finding Performance Bottlenecks With Ddosify](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSAnJvAKcf8) (2023-08-02)
- [Ankara Tech Talks: Managing the Machine Learning Lifecycle with MLOps](https://www.meetup.com/ankara-tech-talks/events/268054959/) (2020-01-23)

## Optional

- [Türkçe sayfa](https://fatihbaltaci.com/tr/)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatihbaltaci/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/fatihbaltaci)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wmPkWaMAAAAJ&hl=en)
- Contact: fatih@gurubase.io