Datapad is a tech startup is to enable a data-driven culture for teams of all
sizes. They’re on the road to build the world’s easiest data solution. Raised
$1m in pre-seed, backed by 500 Startups.
Engineering Director, Founding DevRel, Getir
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Getir is a decacorn tech startup that delivers ultra-fast groceries.
Achievements:
The first DevRel of the company, being the founder of the discipline
Led the “Agile Office”, organizational agility professionals team of agile
coaches and scrum masters
Completed 3 bootcamps, along with 14 new recruitments
Attended some external events
Celebrated May the 4th: Star Wars Day
Started technical event series named Getir Tech Talks
Worked on improvements to hiring processes
Worked on improvements to onboarding processes
Crafted an observation-based career framework for the entire technology
department
Introduced an internal mobility policy for those who have long tenure
Crafted a maturity matrix to state common goals for squads in perspective of
tech-data-product concerns
Held over 100 face-to-face interviews to collect insights
Director, Açık Yazılım
Nov 2020 - Dec 2021
Açık Yazılım is founded by myself during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a software
consulting company, it outsources know-how and workforce for its customers
contracted with.
Achievements:
Founded the company and contracted with customers
Delivered and maintained a contracted work which is a marketplace specialized
in holistic wellbeing services
Provided consultancy to a well-known Turkish Unicorn during their transition
to product-based agile teams
Technologies, Platforms, and Concepts experienced during the period:
JavaScript, Python
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Provider, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Pages,
GitHub Actions
Kubernetes, Docker
Node.js, Deno, Cypress, Jest, webpack
React, React Hooks, GraphQL, Django
Coordinator of Projects, Turkish Open Source Platform
Dec 2020 - May 2021
An establishment under the auspices of the Ministry of Industry and Technology
of the Turkish state, Turkey Open Source Platform aims to increase the number of
software developers Turkey needs, to increase the qualifications of existing
software developers, and to develop the open-source ecosystem. In this respect,
the platform performs a similar function to CNCF (CloudNative Foundation) and
Linux Foundation.
Achievements:
Established and facilitated weekly meetings of project groups under five
different project topics in order to produce the software needed by the public
and private sectors in Turkey with open source software (These topics were
Natural Language Processing, Cloud and Database Systems, Mobility, Linux
(Pardus) and Digital Badges.)
Formed collaborations between platform stakeholders
Planned and kicked off online a webinar series and two hackathons
Designed an architecture and developed project analysis of a digital badge and
verification project
Assisted and reviewed technical output related with projects
Software Manager, Setur
Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
Setur is the tourism and duty-free merchandising company of Koç Holding Group of
Companies, which is on the Fortune 500 list.
Achievements:
Accomplished the leadership and coaching of Agile & DevOps transformation
which led the company to have 80% accurate estimations
Led 9 cross-functional product teams, with a total of 30+ people with various
functions (UX, QA, SE, BA, etc.)
Designed company-wide prioritization flow to maintain both product and
technical roadmaps of products
Achieved faster onboarding process and development of culture by initiating a
knowledge base that consists of both cultural and technical guidelines
Achieved faster troubleshooting and bug detection by established software
quality assurance and delivery metrics with monitoring, tracing, and alerting
mechanisms
Transformed Windows & .NET only ecosystem into polyglot-enabled,
Linux-containerized, orchestrated and multi-regional infrastructure runs on
Kubernetes
Enabled remote and multi-regional development culture
Organized a meetup and several training sessions
Technologies, Platforms, and Concepts experienced during the period:
JavaScript, .NET, Java
Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps
Linux, Windows, macOS
Kubernetes, Docker
Postgres, SQL Server, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
Node.js, Cypress, Jest, webpack, Kibana, Grafana
React, React Native
Microservices, DDD
CloudNative, OpenSource
Lead Software Developer, KoçSistem
May 2016 - Sep 2018
KoçSistem is the information technology company of Koç Holding Group of
Companies, which is on the Fortune 500 list. They offers a wide range of
products and services in areas such as Internet of Things, Big Data & Analytics,
Security, Corporate Cloud, Corporate Mobility, Business Solutions, Digital
Workforce and RPA.
Achievements:
Kicked off the company’s main application framework and was the first member
of the company’s DevOps and Software Architecture teams
Developed a React project for initializing codebases that use the company’s
main application framework with selected components on a web wizard form
Helped other teams to embrace Agile and DevOps practices
Took parts of analysis and decisions of company’s product choices (such as
CMSes, orchestration tools, etc)
Delivered the company’s first serverless project that runs on AWS Lambda
Delivered and maintained 3 enterprise solutions to customers
Attended recruitment meetings as a technical interviewer
Technologies, Platforms, and Concepts experienced during the period:
JavaScript, .NET
Amazon Web Services
Jenkins, JMeter, Docker
SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, ElasticSearch
Node.js, AWS Lambda, AWS Cognito, AWS S3
React, Redux
FaaS, DDD
Software Architect, Mobilex
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
MobileX is a fast-growing tech company focused on building and marketing highly
scalable mobile applications. Despite being such a young company, they have a
track record of building & growing mobile apps on various verticals that reached
over 120 million users across 160 countries.
Achievements:
Developed a complete backend and cloud architecture for Instagram-like
application with location-awareness
Technologies, Platforms, and Concepts experienced during the period:
