The person behind 0xmtn
Who Am I?
I build technology, companies, and the stories that connect them to people.
01 / My roots
I’m Matin.
I’m Matin Amanullahi. You may also know me as Metin Emenullahi, or online as 0xmtn. I’m from Lenkaran, Azerbaijan, and today I live in Haarlem, Netherlands, with my family. In between, I studied computer engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and started building technology businesses.
Over the past fifteen years, I’ve founded five startups and a consultancy, and worked on more than 80 software and hardware projects. The subjects have changed, from connected devices to agriculture and AI, but the ultimate question for me has remained the same: How do I turn a technical possibility into something people can actually use?
02 / Early chapters
Networks, hardware, and a guitar.
My early work was in communications, connected devices, and internet security. I founded Zulu Networks and Herni Labs, working across software, hardware, and the infrastructure that connects them. At Herni, we also helped other makers and startups build connected products without having to develop every piece of cloud infrastructure themselves.
Agriculture was already part of that work: Herni Vinum focused on vineyards, and Herni Orchard on orchards. Bringing connected technology into agricultural settings was a thread I would later continue at Agcurate.
Music was part of that journey, too. My work at Deplike brought engineering together with guitar: making sounds and effects available through a phone instead of a heavy amplifier. It’s an example of how my interests outside work find their way into the things I build.
03 / From space to the field
Building Agcurate.
In 2020, I co-founded Agcurate with Berk Ülker. I was dumbfounded by how little anyone knew for certain about what was happening on rural farmland, and how unprepared that left people across the agriculture industry. The 2018 raids on onion warehouses in Türkiye, followed by a farmers’ union warning of food shortages as COVID spread in March 2020, brought that problem home for me.
As CEO, I work on bringing satellite imagery, machine learning, and agricultural knowledge into the decisions people make on the ground.
Through FieldOps, we help agricultural teams understand crop conditions and organize their work. That means connecting what satellites observe with weather, field information, and the practical questions of growers, food companies, and risk managers. Our work also extends into climate resilience and agricultural insurance.
For the past six years, we’ve served clients and run frequent pilots in Türkiye, Pakistan, Mali, Australia, and across the EU, while developing state-of-the-art crop mapping and satellite imagery technologies. Alongside that work, we became part of Rockstart’s portfolio in 2025, and FieldOps has been part of an ESA Space Solutions feasibility study.
We’re also a partner in BIO-CAPITAL, an EU-funded project bringing together geospatial analytics and financial solutions to protect and restore biodiversity. Our work there connects environmental monitoring with risk, financing, and insurance, helping turn evidence from the land into practical support for conservation and restoration. It’s an extension of the same ambition: making intelligence useful enough to change a decision, a field operation, or an outcome.
04 / How I think
Start with the problem. Stay close to the people.
I move between engineering, product, and the business around them. I care about who needs a product, what they are trying to do, and whether it earns a place in their working day. Talking to customers, finding a clear market, and learning how to sell belong alongside building the software.
Storytelling is part of that work. A technical idea needs a clear explanation for a customer, a teammate, or an investor. Writing and pitching help me make the problem, the choices, and the purpose of the work easier to understand.
05 / What I’m exploring now
What can a small team build now?
AI is changing my own way of working, and I’m interested in how much a founder or a small team can accomplish with it. I built DitchNow to help founders scope, build, launch, and improve products. Faster development creates more room to experiment; engineering judgment still matters when people depend on what you ship.
I’m also building The Ditch, a local-first macOS workspace for working with AI coding agents across projects. It grew from a practical problem in my own work: keeping projects, agents, terminals, and context together.
06 / Beyond the work
There’s more than one way to make something.
Away from company-building, my interests include guitar, music production, and running. This site leaves room for those things, too: photos, music, notes, and experiments alongside the products.
Think of 0xmtn as my public lab. It’s a place to share what I’m working on, what I’m learning, and the ideas I want to explore next. If something here overlaps with your world, I’d like to hear from you.