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Dubai, Ae

Dubai, Ae

Leading marketplace B2C technology evolution with a focus on improving consumer experience and our talent growth. Investing in cloud-native tech transformation as well as operational efficiency to enable our rapidly scaling business.Outlining tech strategy and roadmap execution via step-up capabilities around property search experience, traffic acquisition, mobile apps, marketing automation through an API-led platform architecture, while investing in data insights & personalization.---Property Finder is the leading digital real estate marketplace in the MENA region. The company is one of the largest technology scale-ups in the region and has recently gained the Unicorn status in PropTech domain.https://www.propertyfinder.com/Tech Stack: AWS, EKS, Go, Node.js, PHP, Python, React, Swift, Kotlin.

İstanbul, Şişli, Tr

Usa, Us

Built technology practice of Deloitte Digital Istanbul studio from ground up. Delivered several digital experience projects for leading brands, while building digital platforms on e-commerce, content management and personalization solutions. Lately shaped a new practice within Deloitte offering cloud-native platform modernization and consultancy, helping 3 leading SaaS businesses (fintech, ed-tech, telco) to transform operations.- Led Commerce, Content and MarTech offerings technology delivery- Built a strong technology team of 20+ members with diverse talent, delivering digital experience projects with strategy & design teams.- Led initiatives from business development to project delivery, while also providing advisory services for leading clients on tech operating model improvement via Agile, DevOps and Cloud-Native practices.- Helped Deloitte engage with local development community and universities via meetups, bootcamps and hackathons. Shaped Deloitte tech talent hiring strategy to include such organic channels.Tech Stack: Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Python, Node.js, SAP Hybris Commerce, Headless CMS platforms, Gravity / Yusp Personalization platform

Istanbul, Beykoz Kavacık, Tr

Member of executive management team with the goal to scale the e-commerce technology expertise within Sabancı Group and beyond.- Built a 20+ people technology practice and partnerships on fast-growing SAP Hybris Commerce platform.- Enabled a tire manufacturing & retail organization to launch a digital commerce platform in 7 months, bootstrapping a new revenue source and enabling omni-channel capabilities.- Delivered the foundations of a major e-commerce replatforming project for a leading online grocery retailer.

- Led technology transformation for the leading consumer electronics retailer, as part of a multi-year omni-channel transformation programme. - Scaled the engineering team to 40+ members organizing around outcomes & business capabilities.- Led Kliksa.com re-launch as a pure online multi-category marketplace, rebuilding web & app platforms. Scaled the company to #3 position in Turkey, till the closure of this business venture.- Enabled several key omni-channel capabilities around click & collect, inventory consolidation, drop-shiptments and integrated campaign management.

Amsterdam, Nl

Backbase delivers Bank 2.0 Software with powerful functionality to increase revenue and acquire and retain customers.Global 2000 enterprises such as ABN Amro, Deutsche Bank, AIG, Al Rajhi Bank, Barclays, Bank of America, BT, General Motors, ING, KPN, Motorola, NXP, Phililps, UBS and Visa use Backbase technology to create personalised customer experiences.- Led the company’s first signature client implementation of consumer experience platform, working with business and IT teams as well as Backbase product and solution delivery members.- Worked with international clients like Deutsche Bank and Tinkoff Bank, leading delivery teams of 10+ members in investment and retail banking. - Led consultancy efforts for Backbase clients on software release processes, configuration management, integration architecture, while demonstrating these through hands-on PoC and prototypes.

Richardson, Texas, Us

- Led the development of a strategic new product initiative on mobile advertising, working with a 15+ member engineering team. Started as a senior engineer and promoted to leading architect.- Worked with business, operations and presales teams to secure first client installation with a successful PoC.-Spearheaded agile delivery practices, unit testing and behavior driven development (BDD) quality approaches in the company and embedded in product development process.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Led a development team of 6 engineers as part of a large-scale multi-country platform project running across US, Belgium, Canada, India and Turkey. The network management platform became the de-facto Alcatel operations platform with improved usability and performance.- After demonstrating successful deliveries, joined the core team at Antwerp R&D office.- Hired and trained several engineers for Istanbul office, helping company in staffing for several critical projects.

Proposed and prototyped a Web Service matchmaking algorithm using Semantic Web standards. Published / presented papers in international conferences like SEKE USA & ENASE Spain.Contributed a chapter to Springer-Verlag “Evolution of Web in Artificial Intelligence” book.

Ankara, Tr

Msc, Computer Engineering

Bsc, Computer Engineering