ege

Hello World!

Hey there, this is Ege. Welcome to my corner of the internet.

I was born & raised in Istanbul. I moved to the United States for college when I was 18, and studied computer science at Washington University.

I currently work at xAI on the Grok iOS app, exploring the applications of voice interaction and AI. Previously, I worked at Apple focusing on iOS and iPadOS system UI, and at Google building some iOS apps.

GitHub

Collection

Writing, builds, and posts — in one place.

ege@aegeantic

use your shaders responsibly

June 26, 2026

The iOS Audio Stack Problem

The iOS audio APIs are still fundamentally imperative in 2026 — and that’s the core problem.

May 10, 2026

Supercharged dictation experience on @grok with flick gestures to send and cancel! Try it out today on iOS and Android!

April 22, 2026

I built myself a road bike

I've lost to every engineer's urge to nerd out on their hobby, so I had to build a bicycle in my bedroom. But I think there are some important lessons in there, around challenging yourself outside of your expertise.

hobbies

cycling

May 19, 2025

Reflecting on my first year at SpringBoard

Wrapping up almost ony year at Apple in the System Experience team, and I thought this might be a good time to reflect.

career

reflection

May 18, 2025

Writing testable code

Discussing writing testable code with protocol oriented programming and dependency injection.

Testability

Protocols

Dependency Injection

Nov 17, 2024

Make any class observable for SwiftUI

Learn how to use key value observation to make legacy objects observable in SwiftUI.

Swift

iOS

May 5, 2024

Playing videos from photos on iOS apps

A comprehensive guide to playing videos from the photo library in your iOS app.

Swift

iOS

PhotoKit

Aug 1, 2023

Colocating static data in your web apps

Our Next.js web application powered by Google Spreadsheets required hundreds of subpages to access the same data in a performant way and here is how we leveraged bundling the static data in build time to create a performant site.

Next.js

web

caching

Aug 6, 2022

Using Parcel with Express.js

Make sure the JavaScript/TypeScript you write and you ship are different!

nodejs

express

parcel

Jul 31, 2022

Why do we git branch?

Everyone will tell you to learn git, but I'll try to show you instead of telling. In this post, I'm going to explain how I used `git branch`ing when contributing to Microsoft Sharepoint web app, and also give some examples on how branching is used in school/personal projects.

engineering

contributing

git

Dec 26th, 2021