Gurhan Avdan Email & Phone Number

Istanbul, Turkey

• Leading a cross-functional software development team of backend developers, frontend developers and QA engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable and reliable software products
• Coordinating with product managers, business analysts, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications
• Mentoring team members to improve their technical skills and providing guidance on career development
• Conducting performance evaluations and providing feedback to team members to ensure optimal performance and career growth
• Employing agile methodologies to optimize the team's productivity, ensure on-time delivery of software products, and manage project risks
• Implementing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate testing and deployment processes

• Effectively managing organization, network, software, and cloud infrastructure
• Ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and viability of all systems and tech processes
• Managing a cross-functional team of software developers and UI/UX designers
• Establishing department goals, objectives, metrics and operating procedures
• Coordinating closely with fellow partners to analyze business needs and deliver new products and services within Venture Studio
• Driving Game Studio product roadmap and leading the team to deliver new mobile games

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for analyzing business needs to effectively prioritize work for development and managing full life cycle of products (technical analysis and requirements, design, coding, testing and the implementation of.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Arel University iPhone application- Mobile application for students and lecturers to view course lists, exam schedules, grades,attendance status, announcements
• Burger King iPhone and Watch application- Mobile application of one of the biggest fast food restaurant chains- Call and Order, Click and Order (integrated to home delivery service), Restaurant locations,Bonus games.
• Coca-Cola Merak Ettim iPhone application- Mobile application that provides a public Q&A platform for customers
• Rock’n Coke iPhone application- Application of Turkey’s largest open air event and music festival- Festival Lineup, Announcements, Festival Area Map, Information of Music Groups
• Magnum iPhone and iPad application- Mobile application that includes Magnum products information, advertorial videos, news, mobilecontents, summer campaign and participation
• Coca-Cola Kırmızı Kasa iPhone application- Mobile version of Coca-Cola Kırmızı Kasa Loyalty Program

Istanbul, Turkey

• Responsible for managing Turkcell (Leading GSM operator in Turkey) GollerCepte sports applications in coordination with Turkcell Product Management Team - Analyzing customer needs with technical team - Identifying.
• Responsible for managing Tikle sports products such as SMS services, web sites and mobile applications - Identifying tasks to meet the marketing team requirements - Time and resource management of technical team

Istanbul, Turkey

• Application design and development for iOS, Android, Blackberry and J2ME platforms
• Development of REST/WCF web services (JSON and/or XML response) with.NET
• Design and development of Push Notification Server for iPhone/Android clients
• Implementation of a Video Serving System to convert and serve/stream videos to clients
• Design and implementation of Windows Forms applications and Windows Services with.NET
• Web and Mobile site development with ASP.NET

Istanbul, Turkey

• Team member of the project funded by TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
• The project aims to store and retrieve local data in wireless storage units (RFID tags and sensor nodes) for search and rescue operations after an earthquake.
• Responsible for developing a software for storing and retrieveing data with wireless sensor nodes
• Responsible for designing and developing Windows based user interfaces

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering

• Thesis Title: “Performance Analysis of Wireless Storage Units for Search and Rescue Operations After an Earthquake” • Publications.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering