Born in Izmir in 1994, Selin Ocak completed her high school education at Karşıyaka Gazi Anatolian High School. After completing Dokuz Eylül University Department of Architecture in 2021, he worked on construction sites in Izmir for the first year. Ocak, who works as a freelance architect in the architecture office he founded under his own name, started working full-time at Not Architecture as of October 2023.