Taner Kalaycioglu Email & Phone Number

• Lead a team of 10+ engineers with diverse responsibilities across multiple projects, including development, testing, and support.• Take an active role in effort estimation, work prioritization, and resource management for all projects.• Hold a technical management role overseeing middleware and video streaming components of the end-to-end Mobile TV project for Alfa Mobile/Lebanon.• Serve as the lead technical architect for a large-scale middleware unification project, consolidating IPTV and OTT platforms for Turkish Telecom.• Manage the development cycle of two consecutive phases, delivering new features for Turkish Telecom's IPTV and OTT platforms.• Conduct design and development activities for a Hadoop-based reporting and statistics project for Argela's IP-based TV platforms.• Assume a technical management role in the development of server components for a Network Management Suite based on SDN and NFV concepts.• Perform interviews for recruiting new team members.• Transformed the team's software development process to Agile/Scrum.

• Led decision-making roles during the design phase of new and ongoing projects.• Participated in design meetings with customers and wrote high-level technical design documents.• Defined detailed work units, including design, development, and test phases of the project life cycle.• Assigned work units to development team members and evaluated their outputs.• Supported the pre-sales team in responding to RFPs and writing technical specifications for Argela's end-to-end IP-based TV solution.• Developed the Quota Management suite of Argela's PCRF solution, responsible for managing customer Internet quotas and applying various service policies. The application is integrated with Cisco SCE for policy enforcement on live traffic and is capable of handling over 3000 transactions per second on each node. It is live at TTNET WIFI service, which includes approximately 10K Wi-Fi hotspots across the country.[MySQL DBMS • iBatis • JAX-WS / SOAP • Servlet/JSP • Diameter]• Developed the Microsoft PlayReady license server implementation, integrated with Argela's TV middleware platform. The license server provides live and video content licenses according to the user's subscription policy. The server is live and running on the Omantel TV platform.[C#/.NET • Microsoft IIS • PlayReady SDK]• Developed a secure URL-signing module integrated with our in-house Middleware server and Wowza streaming server.[Java • Wowza • JAX-WS / SOAP]

• Developed the Middleware server for TTNET's IPTV and WEBTV platform, serving over 1 million subscribers. The Middleware effectively manages and orchestrates various components of the IP-based TV solution, including operator's back-office systems, TV clients, content management systems, and digital rights management systems.Implemented the Middleware using Oracle's Glassfish AS, deployed on 6 nodes for IPTV operations and 5 nodes for WEBTV operations.[ Oracle DBMS • JPA/Hibernate • Jax-WS /SOAP • Session Beans • Servlet/JSP • REST/Json ] • Developed service logic and call control components for a SIP-based Ring Back Tone service deployed on Turkish Telecom's PSTN network.The service is actively running on the network, providing ring back tone functionality to subscribers.[ MySql / Oracle DBMS • Sailfin • SIP Servlet • HTTP Servlet ]

Istanbul, Turkey

• Developed the Location Enabling Server (LES), a gateway application between Value Added Services and Location-Based Services (LBS) systems of GSM operators.The LES Server provides SOAP-based location services to third-party applications, incorporating authentication, authorization, and rights management functionalities.[Web Services/Axis • Apache Tomcat • JDBC • Mysql DB]• Created a resource management and tracing service based on GSM location-based services.The service tracks and traces customer vehicles by utilizing the location data provided by the GSM LBS system, displaying real-time vehicle activities on a digital map.Extensively used JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and Ajax to develop the application.[JavaScript • Ajax • HTML • CSS • Struts • JDBC • Oracle DB]

Long Beach, California

Maintaining computers and computer network of Journalism and Linguistics departments. Giving technical support during preparation and printing process of campus wide newspaper, "Daily 49er". Responsible for training students about network and computer usage.

3.71/4.00, Electronics, (Digital Signal Processing)

Activities and Societies: Member of Turkish Student AssociationFocused on Digital Image processing and Realtime Speech processing methods.

2.87/4.00, Electronics And Telecommunications

Activities and Societies: Active member of IEEE student branchEmphasized in Telecommunications and Digital Signal Processing

4.85/5.00, Science