Berkay Atatop is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but enable him to live a nomadic life. He split his college time in Turkey and America, and while he was stateside, he discovered hackathons - which is the origin spot for his current venture. Outside of tech, he played water polo for 10 years, and enjoys playing the guitar. He finds inspiration in bands like Pearl Jam, who is coming to Europe soon, which Berkay is excited about.After getting into hackathons, Berkay and his co-founder built a prototype of their current company solution - an automatic transcription solution for voiceovers. Once they graduated, they decided to start a company and move into subtitles and beyond.This is the creation story of Maestra.SponsorsCacheFlyClearQueryKiteworksLinkshttps://maestra.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/batatop/Our Sponsors:* Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com* Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORYSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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In the MVP, we always wanted to be the single source for customers to get their transcriptioning done. But we always want to focus on the media side, media or audio or video side of things. Right now, for Maestro, anyone can come and upload their files and get their transcription, subtitling, voiceover, translations, or all these things together and export their files.
For example, one of the other things that we were discussing was having a text translation feature. We were considering expanding as much as we could to get as much traction as possible. Maybe we will do that at some point, but we wanted to focus on the media side of things. My name is Berkay Atatok, and I'm the CTO of Maestro.
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Berkay Atatürk is originally from Turkey, but now lives in Germany. He loves to travel, and living in Germany allows him to be close to family, but enables him to live a nomadic life. He split his college time in Turkey and America, and while he was stateside, he discovered hackathons, which is the origin spot for his current venture.
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