Gökhan Karakuş Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul, Türkiye

Leading Talented Engineers to Create Innovative Applications in Telecommunications, Leveraging Big Data and AI/ML Technologies.

Istanbul, Turkey

Coordination of 4 specialized software teams in Big Data Processing & Analytics domain. I am playing the roles of principle architect and team lead in order to apply agile methodologies as scrum and kanban to software development lifecycle including construction of CI/CD pipelines for the modules developed by those 4 teams.

Istanbul, Turkey

-Leading two development teams that are responsible for the development of 5 software products in two main product families (continued from Service Enabler BU)-POC on new technologies: Design, Implement on Java SE or EE, Test and Deliver to development teams-Software module development in Java SE or Java EE in the active product development projects.-Supporting and managing design and test processes within the team-Managing change in the software development process; waterfall 2 agile ( SCRUM, KANBAN)

Istanbul, Turkey

Product Owner -Mobile Number Portability Framework with the Argela BPM -Bulk Messaging Platform -PCRF -Online Charging System -M2M Service Delivery

Istanbul, Turkey

Managing the development team of 2 architects and 15+ Software EngineerCode reviewDevelopment of modules with Java SE & EE -Implementation of Smart Service Gateway product -Design and take role in implementation of PL SQL functions on Oracle for the SSGWManaging the business unit budget -~ 5 Million USDOrganizing and managing operation of 6 live platforms running on customers’ sites -Managing support team of 5+ support engineers and a project coordinator -Platforms serve more than 20 Million of subscribers and 500+ corporate customers 7/24

Istanbul, Turkey

- Active role in Product Management of the next generation ( SOA ) Service Delivery Product ( SDP ) that can be deployed in an IMS network. Additionally solution provides OSS/BSS (TMF compliant Customer, Subscriber, Subscription, Partner, VAS & Content Rating and Charging Management, Alarm, Reporting and Licensing) functionalities and core network integration of 3rd party service applications.- Development of modules with Java SE & EE - Campaign Rule Management Module that is both integrated with Argela SDP (Service Delivery Platform ) and network monitoring applications as IPTV, WebTV and Policy Server ( PCRF ) - Transaction Controller - License manager - Alias Server.- 3GPP PCRF requirement analysis- TLD (Top Level Design) and implementation responsibility in order to develop Argela Policy Server Product- Integration of DPI( Deep Packet Inspection) solutions with the existing SDP platform- Member of the Software Architect Team of Argela - SOA enabling technologies and software architecture of the solutions- Manager of the software development team (10-15 colleagues) that is responsible for developing & testing of service delivery platform solution of ARGELA.

Istanbul, Turkey

- Design and coding of a full Java EE application framework on JBOSS application server -Porting of the existing VASC solution to Java EE environment- Implementation of SMPP 3.4 ( Short Message Peer to Peer ) Server Side protocol in java in SMSC product.- Implementation of Unified Messaging module with Java -SMPTP for e-mail -MM7 for multimedia messaging -SMPP for SMS- Design and coding of VASC (Value Added Services Center) product which is a value added services development platform for GSM Operators and service providers.- I set up several trial deployment environment in the foreign countries for the possible sales opportunities and prepare demos for the customers.

Istanbul, Turkey

- Take key roles in all phases of development and deployment of Easy Bridge which is a value added service development tool for mainly GSM operators and service providers. Java is used in this product.- Take key role as software development engineer in development of Easy Messenger (Multi Media Message Center) product which is developed in pure J2EE architecture on WebLogic Application Server. -MM4 and MM7 modules- As a single product and also available to be used in other projects as a gateway to Short Message Service Centers I have designed and implemented SMS gateway in Java -Multi-Threaded -Interface based protocol handling for any pluggable adaptor for any SMSC integration -Specific adaptor module for handset communication. Using the handset pool as the SMSC in order to send SMSs in bulk manner- I designed and developed Welcome SMS for Roaming Subscribers service using C++ and Java.- I developed a general licensing API to be used in java projects.- I worked as software development engineer in Signaling Gateway project which was developed in C++.- I designed and developed a chat program which enables both GSM subscribers and internet users chat with each other using C, Pro-C, Oracle, Java Servlet – Applet technologies. It is commercially launched and used by about 100k active users- I implemented SMPP 3.3 and SMPP 3.4 SMSC-Client Side protocols in java to be used by other projects as a library.- I also worked as pre-sales engineer and took key roles in some successful sales of products to foreign countries.

Ankara, Turkey

National Defense Obligation - I was responsible of making all the information systems used by the department to be operational 24 hours 7 days- I was also responsible of deciding of the new hardware to be purchased or software to be developed

Istanbul, Turkey

- Integration Testing & finding out bugs in the software of S-12 digital switch and fixed them- Implementation of new features in to the product by writing patches in assembler. -A new welcome voice message was played before the ringtone in case of unpaid debt found- I coordinated the test automation program and built it up and made operational. With this project time consuming test procedures and load tests began to be done by automated test tools.- I was the test project leader for the Y2K problem in S-12 digital switch development team- I worked in integration test projects of Turkish ISDN, No7 Signaling and Russia Specific Signaling systems in S-12 digital switch.- I worked as test engineer in multinational projects of Alcatel in foreign Europe, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, 3.5

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, 3.87

Bsc, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 77.81

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