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Utku Zihnioglu

CEO & co-founder

Serial entrepreneur who built infrastructure companies handling billions of requests. Now leads engineering at Oneprofile, which finds the people worth talking to, researches each one, and follows up until they reply.

Background

Utku is a serial entrepreneur and technical founder. He co-founded Remotium, an enterprise security company, then solo-founded Webshare, a platform for public data collection at scale. Both companies sat at the intersection of infrastructure and scale: systems that had to move large volumes of data reliably, handle failures gracefully, and run unattended without losing records. That background shaped how he thinks about software. The interesting problems are never the happy path. They are retries, rate limits, partial failures, and data source outages.

Running sales at his own companies exposed a different kind of failure. The CRM held a list of names. Everything that made a name worth calling lived somewhere else: what the account paid in Stripe, what they complained about in the support desk, what they actually did in the product. Getting that picture into one place meant a spreadsheet, a stack of open tabs, and an evening gone for every hundred accounts. He did it anyway, because the alternative was calling accounts in alphabetical order.

Oneprofile is his answer to that evening. Describe who you sell to, and the people who match arrive already researched: a checked work email and company facts from a waterfall of data sources tried most accurate first, plus what your own systems know about the account. AI writes a line about each person from that research. Email and LinkedIn sequences then follow up until somebody replies, and the whole record syncs back to the CRM.

The audience is deliberate. Oneprofile is built for the founder who runs outbound between board prep and bug fixes, before there is a RevOps hire or a data engineer. It works for a solo founder on the free tier the same way it works for a 200-person revenue team on a paid plan.

Utku leads engineering at Oneprofile. He writes the enrichment engine, designs the integration architecture behind its 142 integrations, and maintains the infrastructure that keeps your data current every day. Building infrastructure companies from scratch is why Oneprofile treats the hard parts as first-class features instead of afterthoughts: data source fallbacks, rate limits, retry semantics, and knowing what a run costs before it starts.

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