I enjoy working in a multinational company and provide services to companies located in different continents. We develop private labelled, omni-channel sportsbook solutions including desktop, mobile, light mobile, terminal, cashier, pos and embedded devices.We do integrations including payment systems, third party integrations, API services and protocols. Data is obtained from different feeds, and then analyzed, processed and made available to the consumers.I'm involved in… Show more I enjoy working in a multinational company and provide services to companies located in different continents. We develop private labelled, omni-channel sportsbook solutions including desktop, mobile, light mobile, terminal, cashier, pos and embedded devices.We do integrations including payment systems, third party integrations, API services and protocols. Data is obtained from different feeds, and then analyzed, processed and made available to the consumers.I'm involved in recruitment, coaching and mentoring, technology and product development, international meetings and support, testing and quality assurance.Key technologies:• LEMP Stack with Laravel framework• Advanced MySQL usage including stored procedures, functions, events, views and rarely triggers• Elasticsearch for full text processing• Golang for multi-tasking, resource intensive jobs• AngularJS for SPAs• Redis• Git• Bash scripts Show less

I transferred my H1-B visa to Cobia Systems Inc. and joined the company as the lead developer to lead their “Social Media Marketing” project. In August 2015, I returned to Turkey and worked for them remotely. Key technologies:• LAMP Stack with Kohana framework• Apache Solr for full text searching• Overcoming the problems of MySQL under heavy load with big data.• Redis for in-memory caching• Golang for multi-tasking, resource intensive jobs• REACT for reusable JavaScript… Show more I transferred my H1-B visa to Cobia Systems Inc. and joined the company as the lead developer to lead their “Social Media Marketing” project. In August 2015, I returned to Turkey and worked for them remotely. Key technologies:• LAMP Stack with Kohana framework• Apache Solr for full text searching• Overcoming the problems of MySQL under heavy load with big data.• Redis for in-memory caching• Golang for multi-tasking, resource intensive jobs• REACT for reusable JavaScript components• Bootstrap-based responsive UI• Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Google, Youtube, SendGrid, Instagram, Amazon S3 API integrations• Selenium Web Driver integration for UI testing and automation tasks Show less

I worked for Mezun group in Turkey and for Mezun Inc. in Seattle USA having an H1-B visa. I joined the development team as a senior software developer to build their web sites, mainly the social networking and education portals. My responsibilities included requirement analysis, design, implementation and maintaining the infrastructure. Mezun social networking web sites are built using the commercial modular Social Engine for the business requirements and they hosted thousands of universities… Show more I worked for Mezun group in Turkey and for Mezun Inc. in Seattle USA having an H1-B visa. I joined the development team as a senior software developer to build their web sites, mainly the social networking and education portals. My responsibilities included requirement analysis, design, implementation and maintaining the infrastructure. Mezun social networking web sites are built using the commercial modular Social Engine for the business requirements and they hosted thousands of universities and members.The core technologies used:• LAMP stack.• Zend Framework, Smarty template engine, PEAR.• Front end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and Mootools JavaScript Frameworks.• SVN source control system. Show less

Trafo is a leading digital agency in Turkey, which organizes events and digital marketing campaigns. They support their client base with micro web sites, games, Facebook applications and corporate web sites.I led the software development group and I was involved in decision making for the choice of technologies, scheduling and execution of projects. I worked closely with the creative department on idea development and wireframes.Customers included big companies in Turkey such as… Show more Trafo is a leading digital agency in Turkey, which organizes events and digital marketing campaigns. They support their client base with micro web sites, games, Facebook applications and corporate web sites.I led the software development group and I was involved in decision making for the choice of technologies, scheduling and execution of projects. I worked closely with the creative department on idea development and wireframes.Customers included big companies in Turkey such as Boyner, Opet, Eczacibaşı, Eti, IKSV, Mey, Paşabahçe, Tadım, and Starbucks.Some of the developed web sites include:• http://iksv.org• http://film.iksv.org• http://muzik.iksv.org• http://caz.iksv.org • http://www.hayalimtamdabu.com,• http://www.altinbamya.org• http://tadimca.com.tr• http://www.kanyon.com.tr• http://www.kariyertestsurusu.com• http://opttrafikThe opttrafik project is an Intranet project based on Drupal framework for Opet Inc. Features included corporate communication, private messaging, groups, wall, comments, image and video upload, friendship, event organization etc. The users were synced with Active Directory, a C# Windows service was developed to watch for uploads and convert raw video files to Flash Video Files (flv). Show less

I was one of the developers of the eMBA project of Istanbul Bilgi University, which was the first online LMS for MBA in Turkey located at http://emba.bilgi.edu.tr. A side project, MBA Kanteen (http://www.mbakanteen.com), created to provide communication channel for online master students and the academic staff.I've installed and customized Moodle for the for the undergraduate students of Istanbul Bilgi University, available at http://online.bilgi.edu.tr.Blackboard, a proprietary… Show more I was one of the developers of the eMBA project of Istanbul Bilgi University, which was the first online LMS for MBA in Turkey located at http://emba.bilgi.edu.tr. A side project, MBA Kanteen (http://www.mbakanteen.com), created to provide communication channel for online master students and the academic staff.I've installed and customized Moodle for the for the undergraduate students of Istanbul Bilgi University, available at http://online.bilgi.edu.tr.Blackboard, a proprietary LMS suite, was chosen for graduate courses. I developed and presented a module for Turkish spellchecking, which is difficult to do because the language is based on amalgamations and dictionary-based spell checking is not an option. I presented the spellchecker in Blackboardb World Europe ’08 in Manchester, UK conference.I was also in charge of installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of some utility programs like Jira, Confluence and Mantis all running on Debian GNU/Linux via Apache/Tomcat web servers and MySQL databases.Experiences and Major Achievements:• ASP (VBScript) was converted to ASP.NET (C#).• MS SQL Server 2000 backend was migrated to SQL Server 2005 with T-SQL.• NHibernate for entity persistence and mapping was introduced.• Integration of ActiveX based ektron web editor for instructors.• Integration of course registration process to the student registrar. Show less

Dijitalimaj is one of the leading stock image providers in Turkey. The company’s business model was about getting metadata of stock images from the partners and selling to marketing and advertising agencies.The challenge was that metadata was not standardized and sometimes info had to be scrapped from search results. I proposed an XML standard to the partners, which allowed us to do search more accurately and efficiently. The results were cached in a PostgreSQL database and allowed… Show more Dijitalimaj is one of the leading stock image providers in Turkey. The company’s business model was about getting metadata of stock images from the partners and selling to marketing and advertising agencies.The challenge was that metadata was not standardized and sometimes info had to be scrapped from search results. I proposed an XML standard to the partners, which allowed us to do search more accurately and efficiently. The results were cached in a PostgreSQL database and allowed querying via PL/pgSQL and tsearch2 full text search. After this improvements, Dijitalimaj became one of the most selling stock imagery web sites in Turkey; with 10X increase in revenue. The number of partners increased from 5 to 120 in 3 years.Activities and Major Achievements:• Installation and administration of Debian GNU/Linux servers.• Designing, coding and maintaining the company web site running PHP on Apache server with a backend of MySQL and PostgreSQL. Creating a backup plan for both the images and the database.• Managing the infrastructure for SMTP (Exim), DNS (BIND), FTP (vsftp) and Firewall.• Adopting API changes introduced by partners.• Designing the company newsletters. Show less