About TurkeyIsland

Yusuf Songur

About me, the founder of Turkey Island Software

Hi, I’m Yusuf. I’m a Staff Full Stack Engineer with 15 years of experience, which is a polite way of saying I’ve been staring at glowing rectangles until my eyes cross for a very long time. Welcome to Turkey Island Software, a studio built on a solid foundation of software architecture, storytelling, and stubbornness. My origin story begins in the digital wasteland of GeoCities. I hand-coded HTML and CSS from scratch for the sole purpose of building Dragon Ball Z and Gundam fan sites. My only formal programming education was a single Java class. Naturally, I took that knowledge and immediately ignored it, developing a deep, unhealthy obsession with Shockwave (which I’m pretty sure eventually just mutated into Flash). I learned ActionScript before JavaScript. I clung to Flash for web animations long, long after it became a professional liability. When the internet finally forced me to abandon my precious timeline animations, I discovered JavaScript. jQuery and AJAX made the transition survivable. From there, things got slightly out of hand. I spiraled into Ruby on Rails, PHP frameworks, AngularJS, and Node.js. Today, after a decade and a half of framework fatigue, my preferred stack is Angular and Node.js. Angular provides the rigid structural discipline I apparently crave, and Node.js lets me build fast, scalable backends. I'm still experimenting, though. Lately, I’ve been messing with SwiftUI, Kotlin, various LLM projects, and native game development—mostly because sleep is a myth anyway. The entire point of Turkey Island Software is to take all this technical baggage and use it to build actual, immersive games. My current obsession is Galactic Trails, an upcoming sci-fi mobile game. I’m building custom adaptive soundscape engines, mapping out multi-chapter narratives, and trying to make sure the orbital descent sequences don't cause the codebase to catch fire. I operate out of Texas. I am closely monitored by two executive assistants: a black cat and a gray tabby. They contribute absolutely nothing to the code, but their management style is highly effective.