About

I’m Gökhan Yalçuk — an agricultural engineer from İzmir who has spent his career designing and delivering dairy farms, and the last decade writing about what that work teaches you about people, decisions and time.

Since 2011 I’ve worked full-time at GEA Group, today as Global Large Project Manager and Farm Design Consultant in the Global Large & Special Projects team: steering the sale and delivery of projects above €1M across Western Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Before that I ran farm-equipment sales for Türkiye, and before that I sat at the drawing board as a farm designer. The first five years of my career were spent at two Turkish manufacturers — the second a small, long-established family firm building farm equipment, where a small team meant doing every job: design, production planning, R&D, sales and service. That breadth is what opened GEA’s door. Twenty years, over 500 projects and 100+ farms above 5,000 head later, I still find the first sketch the most interesting part.

Outside work I write. Since 2016 more than 150 English articles have appeared here, and since 2018 I’ve published weekly on Medium in English and Turkish. I also design and build: physical products I 3D-model and print myself, and web and mobile apps I take from idea to launch with AI-assisted coding — thirty years of code and seven of hardware design behind it.

A note on this site. This is a personal site. I don’t offer consulting or services here; I’m employed full-time by GEA Group. Everything published here reflects my own views, not my employer’s.

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