Ege Baykal爱琴龙
Mersin · Maritime software

EgeBaykal

Founder of Yugen Zetta

Builds software for maritime operations from Mersin. Spent four years in Shanghai and works in Turkish, English and Mandarin.

Mersin
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home port · 36°48′N
Shanghai上海
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+5 h · 31°14′N
Hong Kong香港
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+5 h · 22°17′N
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About

A view set in Mersin and shaped in Shanghai

Ege Baykal is an entrepreneur based in Mersin. He graduated from Tarsus American College in 2019 and lived in Shanghai from 2022 to 2026, studying the Chinese Language Program at Fudan University and then the Business Chinese Language Program at East China Normal University.

Alongside his studies he worked the trade itself: he built supplier contacts for companies at trade fairs and brokered deals, sold copper and aluminium to cable factories in Türkiye, and found manufacturers for foreign investors and e-commerce sellers. He checked and reported on suppliers' reliability and joined pre-shipment checks on the ground.

Today he is building Yugen Zetta: software that lets small and mid-sized owners and operators on voyage charter follow their demurrage from charter party to collection, with fleet, certificate and fuel records in the same place. He runs both the business and the technical side of the product himself.

Music is part of his life too. In high school he sang lead on the TAC Echo'17 stage at Tarsus American College and went on with the band Boş Kemikler, leaving before his move to China. His song "Çık Karşıma" is on Spotify. In Türkiye he has also independently produced concerts with well-known artists.

4 years
living, studying and trading in Shanghai
3 languages
Turkish, English, Mandarin
HSK 5
Mandarin level
2026
Yugen Zetta pilot period · Mersin
  • Maritime operations
  • Laytime and demurrage
  • China–Türkiye trade lane
  • Supplier sourcing and verification
  • Product development
  • Music and event production
Experience

Where he has built and worked

Yugen Zetta
Founder · Mersin · 2026–

Demurrage and operations software for owners and operators on voyage charter: AI reads the charter party and the SOF, the operator checks and approves; laytime is calculated to the CP terms, invoices and collections are tracked, and a warning comes before the time bar runs out. Fleet, certificate and fuel records live in the same system. 2026 pilot period, Mersin. As founder he runs both the business and the technical side of the product.

China–Türkiye trade
Independent · Shanghai · 2022–2026

Collected supplier contacts for companies at trade fairs and brokered deals. Sold copper and aluminium to cable factories in Türkiye. Found manufacturers for foreign investors and e-commerce sellers, checked their reliability through company registries such as QCC and reported on it, and took part in on-site checks such as pre-shipment counts.

TCE Ege Liman
Internship · TCEEGE Container Terminals · March–June 2020

Four months spending a week in each of the terminal's departments, seeing how a container port runs from end to end.

Ortatepe Petrol
Sales · September 2019–February 2020

Sold BP fuel and Castrol lubricants to factories and farmers. Covered the Adana, Mersin and Tarsus organised industrial zones in the field, selling hardware and spare parts such as Timken bearings and V-belts.

International Forest Products
Internship · Istanbul · July–August 2017

Two-month summer internship during high school in the international trade department.

Education

Education and languages

Fudan University
Chinese Language Program
Shanghai · 2022–2025
East China Normal University
Business Chinese Language Program
Shanghai · 2025–2026
Tarsus American College
High school
Tarsus · Class of 2019
Languages TurkishEnglish中文HSK 5
Writing

Notes on shipping, technology and the China–Türkiye lane

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Contact

Let's talk shipping, software or the China lane

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