Product Builder • Ex-Antler • Founder

Serhat Akar

I translate ideas into real products people use. From helping travelers overcome flight anxiety to bringing airline operations to life for sim pilots. I build with empathy, taste, and a bias for shipping.

Portfolio

Projects

Skyvia icon

Skyvia

2025 – Present

Skyvia brings real-world airline operations into your virtual cockpit. AI-powered dispatcher briefings, advisor calls, random event scenarios, NOTAM analysis, and weather updates — all through natural voice conversations. Selected for the ElevenLabs Grants program.

React NativeExpoFirebaseElevenLabs AITypeScriptRevenueCat
Skyvia dashboardSkyvia flight briefingSkyvia call interface
My Beautiful Flight homeMy Beautiful Flight trackingMy Beautiful Flight chatbotMy Beautiful Flight checklistMy Beautiful Flight mapMy Beautiful Flight resourcesMy Beautiful Flight details

My Beautiful Flight

Sunset

2024 – 2025

A mobile app designed to help people overcome flight anxiety that reached 450+ users before being sunset. Featured real-time flight tracking, an AI chatbot for instant calming support, curated professional resources, personalized travel checklists, and interactive maps with landmark information. No longer available on the App Store.

React NativeExpoFirebaseAI ChatbotFlight TrackingTypeScript
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Hype My Flight

2024

A web app that generates a customized Spotify playlist based on your flight and unique interests. Using AI and the Spotify API, it creates a personalized soundtrack for your journey. 1,000+ playlists generated so far.

Next.jsSpotify APIAITypeScript
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Hype My Flight website

About

A bit about me

I'm a product builder based in Paris with a strong artistic sense and a deep care for understanding what users actually need. I translate business problems into working software and I obsess over the details until it feels right.

Former Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler (<3% acceptance rate), where I explored and validated product ideas in mental health, built early prototypes, and learned to move fast with conviction. That experience shaped how I approach everything: start with the user, ship early, iterate relentlessly.

I've written a novel over two years, do hackathons whenever I can, and sold 1,500+ NFTs on Solana with two friends. When I'm not building something, you'll find me reading, writing poetry, walking, or flying virtual routes in MSFS.

Antler

Ex-EIR, <3% acceptance

450+

Users (MBF)

ElevenLabs

Grants Recipient

Master's

CS, CESI 2022

Tech I work with

React NativeExpoTypeScriptNext.jsFirebaseCloud FunctionsElevenLabsRevenueCatTailwind CSSNode.js

Experience

Where I've worked

Founder

My Beautiful Flight / Skyvia

Jan 2024 – Present

Designed, built, and shipped two mobile apps from zero to production. Worked directly with real users, pilots, and psychologists. 450+ organic users on MBF.

Software Engineer

Beink Dream

Jan 2025 – Dec 2025

Built features in a complex interactive product with React/TypeScript. Presented the product at VivaTech 2025 and client workshops.

Entrepreneur in Residence

Antler France

Sept 2023 – Jan 2024

Selected for the highly competitive program (<3% acceptance). Explored and validated product ideas in mental health. Built early prototypes and evaluated technical, product, and operational constraints.

Software Engineer

Softeam

Oct 2022 – Sept 2023

Contributed to GAIA-X, a European-scale project for secure data exchange and digital identity. Backend and integration work in a multi-team environment.

Digital Project Manager

Suez

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022

Supported design of a data traceability proof of concept. Interface between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Contact

Let's connect

Interested in collaborating, have questions about my projects, or just want to talk aviation and tech? I'd love to hear from you.