Neslihan Şirin Saygılı

Founder

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye15 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 12 years of experience in tech leadership.
  • Expert in fostering team growth and innovation.
  • Proven track record in scaling web applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused engineering leader with extensive experience in software development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentDevopsWeb Development

Other Skills

JavaPythonPHPJavaScriptSQLHTML/CSSAWS servicesDockerTerraformJenkinsRedisMySQLPostgreSQLRabbitMQPrometheus

About

I’m an engineering manager with over 12 years of experience in the tech industry. My journey started in full-stack development and DevOps, where I full-grown my skills in a wide array of technologies. Managing and mentoring software teams has been a hugely rewarding part of my career, and I’ve been focused on fostering an environment that promotes technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. I’ve worked closely with teams to drive both innovation and operational efficiency, helping everyone grow and deliver their best work. Being at the intersection of technical depth and leadership has given me a unique perspective on how to guide teams toward success while balancing the demands of a fast-moving startup.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
13 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Step up

Founder of Step Up

Jan 2026Present · 5 mos

Prisync | dynamic pricing

3 roles

Co-Founder, Head of Development

Promoted

Jan 2018Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • As the head of development with several sub-teams, my primary responsibility was to lead and support each team, ensuring both individual growth and overall team success. I mentored engineers, provided career development opportunities, and handled performance reviews, making sure each team member had the resources they needed to achieve their goals. I maintained technical oversight across all sub-teams, guiding architectural decisions, ensuring best practices, and resolving any complex technical challenges that arose. I helped to define roadmaps, set priorities, and ensured projects were delivered on time. I regularly communicated progress, risks, and timelines to senior leadership, keeping stakeholders informed and managing expectations effectively.
  • A key part of my role was ensuring cross-team communication and knowledge sharing to align our efforts and drive success across the organization.
JavaPythonPHPJavaScriptSQLHTML/CSS+13

Co-Founder, Software Development

Aug 2013Jan 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

  • Led the end-to-end development, scaling, and maintenance of a large-scaled web application, growing its traffic and data loading from thousands to handling millions. Responsible for designing the system architecture with a scalable tech stack; implementing core features focusing on performance and responsiveness to support an increasing number of users while figuring out comprehensive scraping problems; refactoring for scalability that ensuring the system can grow in both functionality and load; and establishing robust DevOps practices to support the system at scale.
  • Languages: Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript (Node.js, React), SQL, HTML/CSS
  • Tools & Technologies: AWS services , Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack
  • DevOps: AWS, GCP, Digitalocean (Multi cloud providers), CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Monitoring/Logging, Auto-Scaling
JavaPHPPythonJavaScriptSQLHTML/CSS+10

Co-Founder

Jan 2013Present · 13 yrs 5 mos

Atrato ip networks

Software Developer

Aug 2011Aug 2013 · 2 yrs

  • IT services company, specialized in data transfer that all services are provided from platforms on Linux. (Also Atrato-IP is provider of high quality IP transit, carrier services, remote peering and managed services.)
  • Implementation of management systems and web interfaces.
  • Development of Atrato-IP Customer Care Center web interface project ( https://atrato.cc ) – PHP, MySQL, Dwoo, RedBean, jQuery & its various plugins
  • A NNTP sampler of Apache JMeter - Java
  • Two different Java based web crawler applications – Java, XML, JSON
PHPMySQLDwooRedBeanjQueryWeb Development

Wincor nixdorf

Software Developer

Sep 2010Aug 2011 · 11 mos

  • Implementation add-ons such as file operations, for ATM monitoring Java project - Java
  • Editing and job automating via bash scripts and batch files to support ProCashNDC/DDC platform that plug & play self-service applications for ATMs - bash
JavabashSoftware Development

Tubitak uekae pardus project

Intern Student

Jun 2010Jul 2010 · 1 mo

  • Open source operating system project. Operating system that implemented via Python on C linux core, with (default) KDE desktop environment.
  • Bootstrapping for Pardus 2011 on 64-bits architecture. To compile and generate executables of compilers and libraries we had to use older version of these tools with special parameters.
  • Gathering informations about basic concepts and tools used,
  • Compiling Binutils, GCC and GlibC,
  • Documenting all processes.
PythonC

Education

Galatasaray University

M.Sc. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2013

Istanbul Technical University

BSc. — Computer Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2010

Gaziantep Science High School

Science

Jan 2001Jan 2004

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