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Istanbul, Turkey

• Oversee a broad spectrum of sw development for 4G/LTE-A, 5G/CU, DU and RU units with a team of 80+ sw engineers, 14 different teams, 2 management group
• Provide strategic leadership to the sw development teams and ensure alignment with the organization’s goal and objectives.
• Collaborate with the stakeholders to define and implement the sw development strategy for 4G and 5G RAN components.
• Manage hiring, training, performance evaluation and career development process.
• Oversee the architectural design of sw components for both 4G & 5G RAN BBU, ensure scalability, performance and reliability.
• Manage budget and resource procurement for the sw development efforts such as human resources, equipments, tools, infrastructural needs and ensure cost effectiveness.

Turkey

• Lead and guide the 8 sw development teams with 45 sw engineers that responsible for designing and developing 5G CU & DU components from scratch. Ensure each team is aligned with the overall project, sprint goals and.
• Define sw architecture, make high level design decisions, select technologies and ensure the quality of architecture.
• Collaborate with internel, external stakeholders to gather sw requirements and put a vision for the team about requirements.
• Manage resources both human and technical to ensure sw development process is efficient. Work as a hiring manager to hire the best engineers, manage budget, procurement processes for technical needs.
• Establish and maintain sw quality control process including sw test automation suites, code quality tools, DevOps pipeline and ensure bug tracking and resolution.
• Oversee the codebase written in C and C++, ensure it aligns with best practices, standards and coding guidelines.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team which responsible for design, development and test of 5G Core network function (PCF) from scratch
• High available, scalable, consistent, real time, microservice based sw design and development with C++ language
• Agile SW development process with CI / CD life cycle (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
• Actively take responsibility for technology choice, system design and implementation of complicated features, modules
• Collaborate and communicate with stakeholders/teams to deliver customer oriented solution
• Provide project management and technical leadership for every aspect of SDLC

Istanbul, Turkey

• Management of wireless cellular resource management team
• Design and development of LTE radio network features like MIMO, CA, PUCCH, SRS, VoLTE, C-DRX, RRC Measurements, Inter-RAT HO, CSFB, SRVCC, RAC, CMC, ANR, MLB, ICIC
• Work closely with the engineers as SW architect and develop the best technical design and approach with C language
• Actively take responsibility for developing complicated features MIMO, CA, adaptive RRC management
• Perform applied research study to deploy best RRM solutions
• Attend dry run and user acceptance tests, hands on bug fix with the team

Istanbul, Turkey

• Analyze radio interface requirements of LTE technology and develop SW with C language
• Search 3GPP specifications broadly and perform academic survey to specify SW needs
• LTE RRM features development on real time, multi core, multi thread architecture with C language
• Assist and coach team members in SW design, development process and troubleshooting activities

Istanbul, Turkey

• LTE L3 architecture design and development according to 3GPP specifications
• LTE L3 control plane protocols (RRC,S1AP,X2AP,SIB,MIB) development on TI6638K2K MultiCore DSP+ARM Keystone II architecture SysBios operating system with C language
• LTE UE management procedures design and development like attach, detach, S1 release
• LTE RRC and RLC/MAC/PDCP procedural flow design and development at eNB
• Trace and analyze radio interface and core network problems with test equipments and tools like TEMS, Keysight NEMO, Spirent, Aeroflex, Polaris, Ixia

İstanbul, Türkiye

• Designed, developed, realized and maintained SIP, H.323, ISDN and SS7 call signalling protocols for voice communication on IP, ATM, ISDN and PSTN based communication systems
• Developed software on Unix / Sun Solaris operating system and Integrity, Vxworks real time operating systems for VoIP and PSTN technologies with C language
• Fast troubleshooting reported by field test group
• Educated and organized junior engineers
• Good knowledge of RTP and G.711, G.723, CELP, MELP, DTMF voice payload types, TCP / IP, UDP
• Prepared design document during the design period and prepared design test request document after the implementation process

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronic And Telecommunication, 3.19/4

Science, Science, 4.91/5

High School, Science

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, 3.61/4