Alper Ebicoglu

Co-Founder and Software Architect Volosoft

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Alper Ebicoglu is a co-founder and software architect at Volosoft, the Istanbul company whose open-source work sits underneath a large share of modern .NET line-of-business applications. Volosoft’s projects — ASP.NET Boilerplate, ASP.NET Zero and the ABP Framework — give teams a ready-made architectural foundation for ASP.NET Core applications: modularity, multi-tenancy, authorization, domain-driven design conventions and hundreds of pre-built modules, so that a business application does not have to be assembled from scratch each time. The company reports more than 33,000 GitHub stars across its projects, over two billion NuGet downloads, 500-plus published packages and modules, and customers in 137 countries. Ebicoglu describes himself as a full-stack .NET developer who has been building software since the early 2000s; within the ABP ecosystem he is a core maintainer, one of its most prolific writers, and a regular presence on the conference circuit.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder of Volosoft, incorporated in Istanbul in 2016 as Volosoft Bilişim A.Ş.
• Core maintainer of the ABP Framework and of ASP.NET Boilerplate, the project that preceded it.
• Software architect on a product portfolio spanning the ABP Platform, ASP.NET Zero, ASP.NET Boilerplate, the VoloDocs documentation tool, and more recent products including Volobox and DailyTalking.
• 57 published articles and a video on the ABP community site since May 2018, on subjects from Entity Framework Core and .NET performance tuning to Blazor, .NET MAUI, authentication and AI-assisted development with ABP Studio.
• Writes on non-technical subjects too, including workplace empathy and developer communication.
• Regular conference speaker, with a public repository of the talks he gives.

Professional Journey

Ebicoglu has been writing software since the early 2000s and describes his own specialism as architecture, .NET and open source. The work he is known for begins with the open-source project that became Volosoft’s foundation. In 2013 a reusable foundation for modern ASP.NET web applications was released — ASP.NET Boilerplate, created by Halil İbrahim Kalkan, who would become a fellow Volosoft co-founder. A commercial product built on it, ASP.NET Zero, followed in 2014.

Volosoft itself was incorporated in 2016, at the same time as work began on the next-generation platform that became the ABP Framework, a ground-up rebuild targeting ASP.NET Core rather than the older ASP.NET stack. Ebicoglu is a core maintainer of both the original Boilerplate project and of ABP. The 2018 phase of the company’s history was about tooling and modules; from 2022 onward the emphasis moved to developer tooling and AI-assisted workflows, and in 2026 the company launched DailyTalking, an English conversation-practice application that sits outside its developer-tools line.

Alongside the engineering, Ebicoglu has taken on much of the ecosystem-building work that an open-source framework depends on. He joined the ABP community site in May 2018 and has published 57 articles and a video there, ranging from deep technical pieces on Entity Framework Core, authentication, Blazor and .NET MAUI to conference recaps and essays on how developers communicate with one another. He is a frequent conference speaker and keeps the presentations he gives in a public GitHub repository.

He is not, despite what secondary summaries sometimes say, the creator of ASP.NET Boilerplate or ABP. That credit belongs to Halil İbrahim Kalkan. Ebicoglu’s contribution is as a co-founder of the company, a core maintainer of the frameworks, and the ecosystem’s most visible writer.

Education

No education record was found. His GitHub profile, his ABP community member profile and Volosoft’s own pages give no university, degree or field of study. He describes his background only as “learning, writing, building software since the early 2000s”. The field is left empty rather than inferred.