Abdurrahman Alp Köken Email & Phone Number

• At OBSS, I help project teams in designing and developing software systems using Agile and Scrum methodologies. In addition, I am responsible for managing and leading engineering teams in my account.
• Guide, coach, and mentor software development teams.
• Analyze, propose and manage technologies and resources for projects.
• Design, implement and refine product development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Provide input in strategic technical decisions and solutions, when needed.
• Apply pragmatic solutions, find the right tradeoffs and seek to reduce complexity to help teams deliver on the organization's goals.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Guided, coached, and mentored software development engineers.
• Provided technical leadership for every aspect of the software.
• Supervised architecture plus lead efforts to develop a technical roadmap of all projects.
• Established and stimulated software development standards and processes along with best practices for the delivery of scalable and high-quality software.
• Performed closely with Engineers, Developers, and Product Management throughout the organization to influence product development assisting or improving products.
• Developed relations with existing and prospective internal customers to interpret all individual requirements.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Analysed system specifications and translated system requirements to task specifications for junior developers.
• Created WCF services to integrate Western Union with the bank's foreign trade system.
• Searched, summarized and kept the team abreast of strategic information from all sources.
• Strong and effective inter-personal and communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse development groups and staff.
• Provided recommendations to management concerning issues of programmer productivity and software development management.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor.
• Extracted business rules from legacy platforms running in VB6.
• Reviewed and maintained legacy code.
• Developed WCF services for seamless integration of Post Office with bank's payment systems.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for development of software projects in accordance with PMI standarts and principles.
• Various bug fixes on NBSM (New Business Strategy Manager) system which is a decision engine for banking
• Project Lagrance: This is a simple application toolkit, which I developed for WPF, with the focus on MVVM pattern. It provides validation, data objects, messaging service, service locator, and helper classes.
• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions): It was a project tracking the customer communications and monitoring the service performance of the bank.
• Jira Rest API Project: In this project, I developed a WCF service reaching the Jira’s data objects and exposing some features of it for OBSS Atlassian Team.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Took an active role in the full development life-cycle.
• Developed new modular libraries and built interactive multi-touch applications.
• Got involved in orchestration of web services of third party companies such as Amadeus, GTA (Gullivers Travel Associates) and Hotel Beds.
• Gained extensive knowledge of WPF, ORM Tools and relational databases.
• Maintained SQL databases and servers.
• Prepared technical requirements, functional specifications and configuration documents.

Istanbul, Turkey

Imagine Cup '10 Turkey Lead in Software Development Category

• Maintained and added new features to a web application developed in ASP.NET.
• Took part in an enterprise application and gained hands-on experience in N-Tier Architecture
• Learned how to solve different kind of problems that occur in web applications.