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Urla, İzmir, TR

Changing a few things in insurance, and everything about how consumers experience it.

Co-founded along with 3 academics with research and industrial backgrounds in applications of AI, the Insursight initiative aims to solve complex insurance domain problems using Artificial/Machine Learning. Responsible for business development, insurance domain problems, and business solutions, we created a framework to approach major underwriter problems.

İstanbul, TR

• As a fractional, interim, and transformational CTO, I specialize in technology strategies, technological transformations, building, and changing engineering companies, and provide mentorship for CTOs and.
• Offshore Technology Company Establishment: Led the establishment of offshore technology entities to enhance global competitiveness.
• Digital Transformation: Adopted multifaceted strategies for maintaining, rewriting, or strategically refactoring legacy systems, which included addressing technical debt and ensuring operational excellence while paving.
• Engineering and Agile Frameworks: Developed scalable and flexible engineering frameworks, integrating agile practices to streamline development and foster collaboration.
• Solution Architecture and System Design: Delineated domain models, bounded contexts, interfaces, abstractions, and orchestrated event-driven interactions between subsystems.
• Bootstrapping New Product Technology Foundations: Overhauled technology stacks with modern, cloud-based solutions and initiated new product development, aligning architecture precisely with product and market.

Istanbul, Kadıköy, TR

• In addition to the role of CTO, contributions and responsibilities regarding the role of Board Member include:
• Managing Insurer, industry, and government relations
• Technical and non-technical product management and roadmap
• Domain expert and innovator
• New business development and chief solution architect in partner relations
• Business process architecture toward corporate efficiency and effectiveness

Istanbul, Kadıköy, TR

• A complete transformation of Koalay.com while supporting legacy. Establishing TAG (Telesure Aggregator Gateway) and migration/rewrite of the insurer integrations from a third-party product to in-house.Creating the.
• 2500 % increase in the number of policies written without an increase in the marketing budgets
• Increase the policies written pure-online via insurer APIs from about 2% to over 90% while decreasing the number of call center staff to 1/3 and improving the operational efficiency close to 30 times
• Increasing the number of online real-time quotes for auto insurance products by about %450
• Increase the competitiveness of the auto insurance quotes by segmenting for different risk profiles through pre-customization of initial coverages based on collected customer profiles.
• Successfully adding new, online-only product groups like DASK with a return on investment approaching %1200

İstanbul, Istanbul, TR

Computer Science and Engineering curriculum development. Help build mentorship programs. Analysis of the gap between industry needs and graduate qualifications. Information exchange between academics and industry leaders.

İstanbul, TR

Lead founder and majority shareholder for life and non-life insurance aggregation and integration technologies provider, and machine learning and predictive analytics applications in insurance and financial services, supported by government technology development and incentive programs, Boğaziçi University KOSGEB R&D and Incubation Center and angel.

Esentepe, İstanbul, TR

Chief Technology Officer for the newly established retail insurance brokerage by Aktifbank. Continued previously initiated development of channel integrations, applications for back office systems, online comparison/aggregation platform for the web and mobile, and API to 3rd party affiliate resellers, and partners.Integration of 22 Insurance Companies and.

Esentepe, İstanbul, TR

Executive level founding Engineering head and chief software and product architect for the (later established Sigortayeri, see above), retail insurance platform business owned by Aktifbank, the largest investment bank at the time known for its entrepreneurship in the Fintech industry.Domain ontology development and softare/solutions design for the POC and.

Sariyer, Istanbul, TR

Software and solutions development for the insurance underwriters and other stakeholders of the health insurance ecosystem like TPAs, Hospitals, and Healthcare Technology providers.Proposed and secured a TEYDEB 1507 R&D grant in the amount of USD 250K for the Electronic Medical Claim Provisioning System. Lead responsible for R&D and the solution.

İstanbul, Kasımpaşa / Beyoğlu, TR

Project Manager for the implementation of Manufacturing Execution Systems software, provided by Werum Inc. Germany (PAS-X) including its qualification, validation, UAT, and commissioning with a budget responsibility of over 10 Million Euros. Integration of MES systems with SCADA and shop floor industrial automation and control systems and equipment..

The Hague, South Holland, NL

Taking over IT and Engineering Management, and all of their functions from where it’s originally outsourced to Oyak Teknoloji. Restructuring the whole IT infrastructure of the company. The hiring of an internal team of software developers, infrastructure engineers, and systems analysts to get ahead in the competition, improving the company’s technology and.

İstanbul, TR

Led the R&D team in developing the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for the Textile Dyeing and Finishing industry. Built the roadmap and architecture of the system based on customer research and feedback, MES, ERP, and manufacturing literature, ISA 88 and ISA 95 standards, dyeing and finishing domain concepts, requirements, and constraints. Prepared.

Lead software developer for projects for various verticals on various platforms and development tools, Windows CE mobile applications, client-server and multi-tier desktop applications, and database applications for governments of Arizona and California, using Delphi, C++, JBuilder, PL/SQL, T-SQL, as well as other contracts awarded by private.

Karma International was the world’s second-largest pc components distributor with 37 offices, warehouses, and carriers worldwide with revenue over $1.5B, later acquired by CHS Electronics (NYSE: HS).UI and non-visual component, OO Framework and application development for the Karma Electronic Market project, a B2B distributed intranet application with.

Küçükbakkalköy, İstanbul, TR

Life and Health Insurance software development for the newly established underwriter, where the designs, solutions, and models would later create repeated patterns in the insurance industry. Responsible for developing premium calculations, policy management, and score-based intermediary organizations and their commission distribution.The tech stacks.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Engineering

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