Erdem A.

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San Francisco, California, United States19 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

20 years of experience in engineering leadership.
Expert in developer experience and continuous delivery.
Proven ability to drive technical excellence.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on developer experience and engineering automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Developer ExperienceContinuous DeliveryEnterprise ArchitectureMicroservicesCloud ComputingSoftware DevelopmentInformation Security Management

Other Skills

CI/CDDeployment AutomationReliability EngineeringAI-enabled ToolingObservabilityService DecompositionMonorepo ToolsEvent Streaming PipelineGoogle KubernetesPythonDjangoFlaskGoogle Cloud PlatformCloud TransitionMicroservices Architecture

About

Strategic engineering leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling internal platforms and developer ecosystems that accelerate engineering velocity and reliability. Expert in organizational leadership, developer experience (DevEx), continuous delivery, and platform strategy in high-growth startups. Proven ability to drive technical excellence, implement scalable systems, and align engineering operations with product and company goals.

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Notion

Head of Developer Experience

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

Managing developer experience, AI DevEx, deployment infrastructure, CI and Engineering Automation scope in Notion.
Built and scaled the Developer Experience organization.
Defined and executed platform vision across CI/CD, builds, deployment automation, reliability
engineering, and AI-enabled tooling.
Led transformation to a mature continuous delivery model, improving deployment confidence and
engineering velocity.
Partnered with executive leadership on roadmap alignment, headcount planning, and long-term
platform investment strategy for engineering excellence.
Positioned DevEx as a force multiplier for product teams, balancing velocity with operational
excellence.

Developer ExperienceCI/CDDeployment AutomationReliability EngineeringAI-enabled ToolingContinuous Delivery

It society

Board Member

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

Founding member of IT Society, focus group coordinator and mentor.

Ehealth, inc.

Senior Principal Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Coordinated and lead Enterprise Architecture Group (EAG) of eHealth.
Tech lead for Developer Experience.
Reshaped cost-efficient observability with logging, monitoring and distributed tracing aspects.
Designed and led service decomposition by creating monorepo tools and driving culture shift.

Enterprise ArchitectureObservabilityService DecompositionMonorepo Tools

Vida health

Principal Software Engineer

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for all technical decisions as the highest technical staff reporting directly to VP of engineering.
Reduced response time of online/offline recommender systems 40% by using Event Streaming Pipeline developed on Apache Beam and Google Pub/Sub messaging.
Designed and implemented microservices deployment standards on Google Kubernetes with Helm.
Designed and developed microservice architecture for all content of Vida on Python Django and Flask. Improved customer activation and engagement with rich content.

Event Streaming PipelineMicroservicesGoogle KubernetesPythonDjangoFlask

Cyaware inc

Director of Engineering

Jan 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Managed the engineering department of a highly ranked complaint management website for the whole data center to cloud transition and monolith to microservices architecture decomposition.

Cloud TransitionMicroservices ArchitectureCloud Computing

Silvercloud technologies inc

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

Developed ERP functions on both IOS and Android Apps for COOLSIS School Information System. Used Objective-C and JAVA.
Developed WEB Services for 3rd party integrations and performed security penetration tests.
Designed architectural improvements and implemented solutions focusing on security and scalability.

ERP DevelopmentSecurity Penetration TestingSoftware Development

Tübi̇tak bi̇lgem

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Managed a team of 10 skilled engineers to build Data Leakage Prevention System.

Data Leakage Prevention SystemInformation Security Management

Engineering Manager

Jan 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 11 mos

Managed a team of 5 engineers developing fraud analytics solutions.

Fraud Analytics SolutionsInformation Security Management

Senior Software Engineer

May 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and developed security level classification algorithms in C and JAVA on textual contents.
Developed stored procedures on PL/SQL for massive data analysis on government systems.
Reviewed code and trained software engineers for best practices and OOP principals.

Security Level Classification AlgorithmsData AnalysisInformation Security Management

Bahcesehir university

Adjunct Instructor

Sep 2010 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

Instructor for
SEN 5003 Advanced System Analysis and Design 1
SEN 5004 Advanced System Analysis and Design 2
SEN 5012 Service-Oriented Architectures
SEN1001 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming (JAVA)
CMP2008 Computer Organization
YZM5550 Business Intelligence

Turkcell

Software Engineer

Jun 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed management applications in JAVA for Network Operations & Regulations department.
Prepared data warehouse and developed Cognos Reports from network data for better decision making.