Curriculum Vitae
Experience
Head of Engineering, Teknasyon
May 2023 - Present
CTO, Datapad
Oct 2022 - May 2023
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
- Improved IT recruitment processes, implemented technical assessments, attended 300+ recruitment meetings
- 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:
- JavaScript
- Amazon Web Services
- Terraform, Docker
- Postgres, MongoDB
- Node.js, AWS VPC, AWS EC2, AWS ElasticBeanstalk, AWS S3
- OpenStreetMaps
E-Commerce Software Consultant, Zaimoglu Holding
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
Social Media Oriented Web Development and Research Assistant, Eastern Mediterranean University
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Team Lead, Goldsoft Trading
Jun 2012 - Aug 2013
Head of Software Development, CMFNet
Jun 2008 - May 2012
Software Design Engineer, DevBiz
Apr 2006 - Jan 2007
Backend Developer and System Administrator, Ispro
Mar 2005 - Apr 2006
Web Developer, Egebilgi
Jun 2004 - Feb 2005
Web Developer, Sis Hosting
Jan 2001 - Aug 2002
Education
Master’s Degree - Information and Communication Technologies in Education
2013 - 2019
Eastern Mediterranean University, CGPA: 3.44 / 4.00
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
2010 - 2012
Eastern Mediterranean University, CGPA: 3.12 / 4.00
Associate’s Degree - Computer Programming
2002 - 2004
Celal Bayar University, CGPA: 78.77/100
Certificates and Exams
LEAD Execution Program - Personal Branding, Reputation and Perception Management Training for Leaders
Sep 2019
Issuer: Koç Holding HR - Koç University
LEAD Execution Program - Customer Experience
Sep 2019
Issuer: Koç Holding HR - Koç University
Assessment Center
Aug 2019
Issuer: TAG
Applied Entrepreneurship Training
Apr 2016
Issuer: KOSGEB
edx CS-169.1x: Software as a Service
Aug 2013
Issuer: Berkeley (University of California)
https://verify.edx.org/cert/da723362e8b74500992fc4bc84e5324c
edx 6.00x: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
Jun 2013
Issuer: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://verify.edx.org/cert/4b90bae7e00a4d94b9793c93339334ba
Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Exam
May 2012
Issuer: OSYM
General English (EFL) - Upper-Intermediate (Council of Europe B2)
Jun 2011
Issuer: UKLA
Project Management Methodologies and Practices
Jun 2011
Issuer: Turkcell Akademi
MCTS - Microsoft Windows Mobile Application Development
May 2010
Issuer: Microsoft
MCTS - Microsoft Windows Mobile Designing, Implementing and Managing
May 2010
Issuer: Microsoft