Bertan Guven Email & Phone Number

Berlin, Berlin, DE

• Managed a team of 4 engineers that was responsible of 2 critical services
• Helped build: Translations service - support the entire web-platform to serve all text displayed in different languages on locales. Written in NodeJS.
• Helped maintain and improve: Tax Service - responsible for calculating taxes to be paid by customers in a few select countries, as well as make it possible for certain stakeholders to use that information to file for.
• Partnered with product owners to help build quarterly roadmaps to help align/hit companies quarterly/yearly OKRs.
• Put together and helped follow an action plan that helped 2 team members to reach their next promotion level.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Helped build and ship first drama free project in company’s history
• Worked with management group on continuous improvement of dev processes
• Worked with product management to position competitive advantages and develop strategies to close any gaps
• Worked with the product management team to design and develop new products / improve existing / retire old ones
• Create work plans, estimates and reports to identify risks and opportunities to leadership to help with their quarterly planning efforts
• Effectively staffed teams and coached members to be problem solvers rather than being single faceted contributors

Satellite Beach, Florida, US

• Consulted companies on how to improve their engineering departments (from hiring personnel to establishing sound development disciplines and culture)
• Trained developers both on backend and front-end technologies, train them on development methodologies
• Built individual projects from ground up
• Helped build/improve existing projects (eq: integrate with banks, etc.)

New York, New York, US

• Helped build and maintain biggest social media platform for doctors in the world with over 300,000 members
• Helped build and refactor existing legacy systems either by separating concerns into microservices or moving bits and pieces where they belong in the correct monolith service
• Built an information gathering service from ground up with complete ownership including: DevOps, development, planning, testing. Used microservices and tools like Rails, AWS, ElasticSearch, VueJs, etc
• Trained colleagues for best agile practices to improve a bad history of failing sprints and delivery
• Mentored and coached developers to become problem solvers
• Taken initiatives to improve culture by breaking existing habits, introducing guidelines (both agile and engineering)

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Built and delivered a core product to be used in long term care centres across north america from grounds up using React, Flux and Rails
• Helped maintain all products in different Rails versions while coordinating with multiple teams to eliminate hiccups
• Acted as the Deployment/Release master for all the products and automated the entire process by creating ruby scripts to allow any developer to be able to use and extend them easily when necessary
• Held weekly developer improvement sessions to teach team about Clean Code, Architecture, SOLID principles and more
• Interviewed and mentored all new developers
• Started many initiatives such as automated user acceptance tests, code styles, better scrum practices

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Developed an online driver training software that saves lives all around the globe by reducing accident rates.
• Worked with a JavaScript framework called Backbone JS to create fast and seamless online applications which supported multiple platforms and devices.
• Helped maintain and build new features on backend using PHP with domain driven design pattern in mind to achieve flexible architecture.
• Helped automate many time consuming tasks and built better developer environments that resulted in better dev flow and QA strategies.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

• Created a real-time note taking application to be used by Professors and Students
• Built JavaScript functionality to draw SVG graphics while supporting multiple platforms and devices
• Optimized data transfers to improve speed and data overheads
• Implemented responsive design practices to achieve fluid web applications

Gatineau, Quebec, CA

• Worked on the busiest governmental website, weather.ec.gc.ca
• Worked on several projects such as publishing a Beta site and Accessibility/Usability upgrade of the current site
• Worked with a big group of people from different cities across Canada.
• Developed/Maintained/ for back-end process in Perl, Shell and Python and front-end using PHP, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript
• Built a two tier search engine as part of the Accessibility/Usability project that was capable of achieving real time search results

• Worked on a web application called Markus, an open source project, used by multiple universities to grade their student’s assignments
• Used Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL.
• Used various tools like IRC, github, ReviewBoard, Blog to communicate with the other members to effectively resolve any of the issues.

• Collaborated with three other team members to design and develop an online lab booking toolfor Bayview Secondary School
• Constructed a secure website using PHP and CSS for users (Teachers) to book rooms onlineand stored all data in a MySQL database
• Implemented Model-View-Controller pattern to make our project more modular and moreprogramming friendly