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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.• Promote a culture of continuous improvement for efficiency and productivity.

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 collaborate effectively.• 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.• Identify and mitigate risks that may impact project’s success, take proactive actions to address potential issues.• Nurture the professional growth of whole team, providing 1:1 meetings, training, career development opportunities.• Encourage innovation and improvement iteratively in SDLC. Execute and lead large scale scrum framework, events and implement empirical approach to become our best sprint by sprint.

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• Manage R&D project budget and headcount plan• Hire, guide, coach and mentor for team members• Deliver weekly reports and proposals to C-level• Involve in strategic plans about policy control, network slicing, e2e automation, NWDAF, O-RAN RIC to accomplish technical as well as business with stakeholders, customers

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• Hire and mentor for new team members• Plan, direct and coordinate team efforts, set goals, deadlines based on agile principles• Work with senior management, system and test staff to execute cohesive product plan

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