AI Product & Operations

Markus Acar.

Building AI-enabled products and operational systems for complex, real-world businesses.

Automation Specialist at Ontario Shipyards · Founder, Midra AI · Lead, Turks in Tech Toronto

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Hamilton, Ontario BASc · McMaster '26 From Mardin, Türkiye
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Fig. I — AI · Product · Operations
Built for the real world AI Products Industrial Operations Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Leadership

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Plate II · Systems in Practice

From ambiguity to working systems.

A selection of products and systems built across industrial operations and B2B workflows.

01 Industrial AI · Internal Product

Industrial AI Knowledge System

Turning scattered operational documents and company knowledge into a practical internal system people can search, access, and reuse.

Problem

Operational information lived across documents, workflows, and disconnected sources.

Built

An AI-assisted internal knowledge and document intelligence application.

Role

Workflow discovery, product requirements, implementation, and deployment.

02 Workflow Systems · Industrial Operations

Submission & Approval System

Redesigning a document-heavy approval process around traceability, structured routing, and less manual handling.

Problem

Submission emails and attachments required repetitive handling across a fragmented process.

Built

An automated routing system that organizes incoming records into a structured workflow.

Role

Process mapping, solution design, automation, and operational rollout.

03 B2B Operations · Founder Delivery

B2B AI Sales Operations

Building a repeatable operating system around prospect research, personalized outreach, lead organization, and follow-up.

Problem

Growth work was difficult to run consistently across research, messaging, and follow-up.

Built

An AI-assisted outbound workflow for a B2B industrial supplier.

Role

Commercial discovery, system design, implementation, and delivery.

Other systems shipped
Operational document tooling Reporting automation Content operations Digital infrastructure

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Plate III · Three Contexts

Building from three vantage points.

Inside industrial operations, through a growing AI company, and across a founder community.

01Industrial AI & Operations

Ontario Shipyards

Automation Specialist · Jun 2026 — Present

Designing and deploying AI-assisted internal products and workflow systems across industrial operations, translating real operational problems and user requirements into practical tools used across the business.

02Founder

Midra AI

Founder · 2025 — Present

Building and delivering AI-enabled operational systems for growing businesses, with an initial focus on document-heavy workflows, sales operations, internal knowledge, and industry-specific processes.

Operational intelligenceAI-native workflowsIndustry systems
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03Ecosystem Builder

Turks in Tech Toronto

Co-Founder & Lead · Sep 2023 — Present

Co-founded the Toronto chapter of the global Turkish tech community and led ecosystem initiatives drawing 1000+ attendees and bringing together founders, engineers, investors, and technology leaders.

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Plate IV · The Throughline

From operational problems to working products.

I work at the intersection of AI, product, and operations.

At Ontario Shipyards, I build internal tools and AI-assisted systems around real industrial workflows. Through Midra AI, I work with businesses on operational problems spanning knowledge, documents, sales, and automation.

My strength is connecting the pieces: understanding how a business actually works, identifying the right problem, translating it into a practical product or system, and moving it from idea toward deployment and adoption.

My path into technology started much earlier — from science projects in Mardin to CERN, McMaster, entrepreneurship, and building technology communities in Canada.

Languages

English · Turkish · Syriac (Aramaic) · Arabic

Markus / Signals Beyond Work

Plate V · An Unusual Path

Curiosity with range.

A few signals from beyond the day job that continue to shape how I build and lead.

I

CERN BL4S Finalist

Beamline for Schools · 2020

Reached the finals with a graphene-based detector concept — top 4% of 500 submissions.

II

TEDx Speaker

TEDxMEFUniversity · 2021

Spoke in Istanbul about curiosity, perseverance, and refusing to accept inherited limits.

III

Aspire · Top 1%

Harvard-founded · 2022

Selected from 7,500 applicants for an intensive leadership and technology entrepreneurship program.

IV

Cosmos Data · 80k+

Co-founder

Co-founded a popular science and technology publication that grew to more than 80,000 followers.

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Plate VI · The Stage

Sınırların Ötesine Yolculuk.

TEDxMEFUniversity, Istanbul · 2021

A talk on limitlessness, curiosity, and thinking — and what it takes to follow an idea beyond every border.

“If the results of our work touch people in a positive way, that is success.”
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Plate VII · Connect

Let's connect.

I'm always interested in ambitious AI products, industrial technology, operational transformation, and people building at the edge of those worlds.

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