Birkan Herguner

Birkan Herguner Email and Phone Number

Head of Development at Workmana @ Workmana
Birkan Herguner's Location
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye, Turkey
About Birkan Herguner

I have more than 20 years of experience working with IT companies in different sectors. I have knowledge and experience on all production, planning and implementation of enterprise level mission critical software, working 24/7 with operational systems. I have worked on enterprise level projects as a manager, executive, software architect, analyst and coder. I am experienced in leading and directing project tasks in accordance with short and long-term priorities and project plans. I am experienced in understanding client needs, design and develop creative IT solutions. I am experienced in people management of multifunctional teams.

Birkan Herguner's Current Company Details
Workmana

Workmana

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Head of Development at Workmana
Birkan Herguner Work Experience Details
  • Workmana
    Head Of Development
    Workmana Jun 2024 - Present
  • Libero Systems
    Director Of Software Development
    Libero Systems Jan 2019 - May 2024
    • Make decisions about project missions, goals, tasks and resource requirements. • Coordinate with external stakeholders, usually with foreign partners for new integrations and application development.• Hiring and training new team members to manage the projects and preparing the budget of the team.• Initiating improvements of engineering structures.• Working with employees on their career and personal development, mentoring them to learn new skills and develop their career path, creating performance improvement plans, and holding one on one meetings.• Work with engineering team to improve agile team performance. (SCRUM)• Work with engineering team to identify and implement process changes and improving the quality of the products.• Lead development in order to deliver modern applications and lead development in order to deliver cloud ready applications.• Lead frontend development using modern architectures. (React & React Native)• Train and integrate new team members to the continued development process.• Lead engineering team for the refactoring of old codebase.• Lead engineering team for designing and implementing microservice architecture.ProjectsEnterprise Level Playout solution for Broadcasters. It’s developed using agile methodologies. Consists many modules, services written in C++, Python, Java, C#, using libraries like Java Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Jersey, FFmpeg, Medialooks Scheduler solution for live events recordingIt’s developed using SCRUM. Some integrations are written in C++ & Python, backend is NodeJs, Frontend is React app.Digital Asset Management Solution It’s developed using SCRUM. Microservice architecture, services are written on NodeJs and .Net Core. combined RDBMS and NoSQL,dbs. Dockerized
  • Baran Bilisim Teknolojileri
    Director Of Software Development
    Baran Bilisim Teknolojileri Oct 2016 - Jan 2019
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Work closely with stakeholders and team members to make decisions about project missions, goals, tasks and resource requirements. Directly reporting to CTO. • People management responsibilities including, working with employees on their career and personal development, creating performance improvement plans, and holding one on one meetings with each employee.• Reorganized the software development department and development methodologies.• Implemented agile development methodologies into the technical team.• Scrum master or project owner role on some projects.• Led planning and implementation of projects, participated in design and testing phases.• Responsible for assembling the project staff and managed project resource allocation.• Worked regularly with clients to determine their needs and to develop plans for new functionalities, managing and contributing R&D process. • Train and integrate new team members to the continued development process.• Made decisions and timely took independent action in pursuit of priorities.ProjectsBroadcast Compliance Recording and Monitoring System.Programming Languages & Techniques used:Developed using SCRUM framework. UI is developed using Javascript, AngularJS & HTML5. Services are developed using Java (Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Jersey as jax-rs implementation, Hibernate as JPA implementation), C# for recording & monitoring user interfaces.RTUK Logger project.It’s a subset of compliance recording system. It only stores video files searchable by date and time for more than a year according to legal obligations.Video Streaming Software. Responsible for capturing a form of source media (from a capture card, camera, screen etc.), digitize the content, and send to a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. Character Generator Software. CG software produces static or animated text such as news crawls and credits rolls for keying into a video stream.
  • Dijitalya
    Project Director / Partner
    Dijitalya Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Software development in project oriented organization for TV Broadcasting Industry. • Led planning, implementation of projects and recruitment of project teams.Major projects are;June and November 2015 Turkish general elections operation for TRT1 & TRT Haber.Competition and reality show automations. Kelime Oyunu (Fox TV) , Piramit (Show TV), Vay Arkadaş (Star TV), Kazan Kazan (Atv)Live sports graphics production software for studio touch screens.
  • Doğuş Yayın Grubu
    Software Project Executive
    Doğuş Yayın Grubu Jul 2007 - Oct 2014
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Participated in or led all aspects of the development life cycle of applications. Directly reporting to IT Director.• Development of the Project Brief and Business Case.• Follow exhibitions and conferences in order to choose best applications or systems to purchase and coordinate all team members to integrate these systems with in-house solutions.• Ensure that issues or new requirements of projects are being tracked resolved and implemented according to the project plans.• Developed new value-added products that establish cost cutting benefits to the company.• Worked on multiple projects simultaneously and managed project resource allocation.• Worked with the customer to identify business requirements and translated them into plans.Some of the projects are;Media Asset Management system, storing more than 1 million of media file & metadata with more than 1 Petabyte of storage for all TV stations of company. Rating analysis system for sales and planning department.TV channel recording system. Character Generator automation & clip database system for music TV station (Kral TV).Updating the CRM solution for National Geographic Turkey & Doğuş Magazines.Adding Call-Center integration to CRM solution.Adding Online POS Payment integration to the CRM solution.RDS automation for radio stations. (NTV Radio, Radio Eksen etc.)
  • Doğuş Yayın Grubu
    Software Architect
    Doğuş Yayın Grubu Jan 2002 - Jul 2007
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Leads work groups and/or functions as a technical expert.• Performs research, analysis, design, creation and implementation of applications to meet current and future user requirements.• Writing and testing code.• Developing existing programs by analyzing and identifying areas for modification.• Developing CRM solution from scratch for National Geographic Turkey & Magazines department.
  • Finans Media Finansal Bilişim Hizmetleri A.Ş.
    Software Architect
    Finans Media Finansal Bilişim Hizmetleri A.Ş. Jan 2002 - Oct 2002
    Istanbul, Turkey
    • Identifying business requirements and requirements of the stakeholders on the project.• Designing the entire system based on the received requirements & choosing the technologies for the implementation. • Server side analysis and design. Writing and testing code.• Research, design and implement server side services.• Analyzing and implementing database and service architecture.
  • Yatırım Araştırma Ve Bilgi Pazarlama Ltd.Şti
    Full Stack Developer
    Yatırım Araştırma Ve Bilgi Pazarlama Ltd.Şti Jan 1998 - Jan 2002
    Developing solutions for real-time Tracking, Technical Analysis & Decision Support tools for Istanbul Stock Exchange.
  • Bilser Bilgisayar Ve Yönetim Sistemleri A.Ş.
    Software Developer
    Bilser Bilgisayar Ve Yönetim Sistemleri A.Ş. Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

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Birkan Herguner's current role is Head of Development at Workmana.

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Birkan Herguner attended Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Yildiz Technical University, Lycée Français Saint-Joseph Istanbul.

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