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.• Create a healthy culture of collaboration & inclusion and lead by example.• Communicate and collaborate with other managers, stakeholders.• Manage, support, and evaluate engineers' performance.• Hire new talents for the team and offer coaching and development opportunities.•Designed and deployed a scalable software development infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers, integrating the following tools: GitLab for version control; GitLab Runner for continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD); SonarQube for code analysis; Elastic Stack for logging and monitoring; Harbor for container registry; Nexus Repository for package management; Docker for containerization; Kubernetes for orchestration; and Argo CD for continuous delivery.

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.• Collaborated effectively with all team members as well as hold regular team meetings.

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.• Investigated and resolved issues relating to application functionality.• Implemented numerous software fixes at the same time as working on time-intensive projects.

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.