Erkan Cerit

Erkan’s story is wild, honestly. Grew up pretty much on movie sets, thanks to his dad, Nihat Cerit, who was a Turkish producer. Kid’s life took a sharp turn when his dad handed him a Commodore 64—remember those chunky things?—and, boom, the dude was hooked. Started coding in QBasic before most kids could even figure out their homework, turning math into visuals just for fun. By 13, he was the youngest employee at Teleteknik, basically the go-to spot for Commodore in Turkey. No mentors, no YouTube tutorials—he just figured it out solo. School? Meh. He barely showed up, but still got good grades. Doctors said he had a high IQ, but there was no special school for him, so he got bored and ditched. Still, he managed to graduate high school at 17 with some special exam. Then, boom, straight into freelance programming at Goldstar Turkey, and by ’88, he’s at Apple Computers Turkey, learning desktop publishing and graphic design, making actual software. By the early ‘90s, dude’s knee-deep in industrial IT—textile design, manufacturing, networks, even neurosurgery video stuff for Uludag University. Then SGI, the Silicon Graphics big shots, pull him in as a Media Advisor. That’s when he gets obsessed with 3D and stereoscopy, after seeing wild stuff through a military viewfinder and later, NASA’s stereo images from Mars. Even when customers weren’t biting, he kept at it—digital cinema, signage, broadcast tech. Fast forward to 2010, he’s directing Turkey’s first stereoscopic 3D feature film, doing Dolby mastering, and still dropping tech articles in major mags. Guy’s basically a one-man tech revolution.