Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Netherlands

• Transforming Ideas into Digital Reality | We're a team of passionate innovators, creating cutting-edge solutions that drive digital transformation and empower businesses for the future.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• AI:
• Leading the end-to-end AI transformation strategy to drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and optimize operational efficiency across our banking operations.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Strategic AI Infrastructure: Spearheaded the design and implementation of our proprietary AI server infrastructure, carefully selecting and optimizing hardware components to maximize performance while ensuring data security and regulatory compliance.
• AI Model Evaluation: Conducted comprehensive testing of multiple LLMs to identify optimal solutions tailored to our specific requirements, balancing performance, accuracy, and computational efficiency.
• Enterprise-Grade AI Interface: Developed an intuitive inference UI for internal stakeholders, democratizing access to AI capabilities across departments.
• Knowledge Intelligence: Implemented sophisticated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to transform our internal knowledge base into an intelligent resource, significantly improving information retrieval and decision-making processes.
• Specialized AI Solutions: Fine-tuned foundation models for banking-specific applications.
• Agentic AI Workflows: Designed and implemented autonomous AI agent frameworks to streamline complex banking operations.
• Customer-Facing AI Solutions: Launched an intelligent chatbot that serves customers 24/7, handling inquiries, transaction support etc. while maintaining strict security protocols.
• DevOps:
• Established a comprehensive DevOps infrastructure from scratch, setting up and configuring Jenkins, Gitea, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Sonatype Nexus, Docker and Kubernetes. Leveraged containerization to streamline application deployment and scalability, enhancing CI/CD processes. Successfully initiated integration of these tools with existing applications and new projects, focusing on automation, code quality, monitoring, and observability to drive efficient, reliable deployments across the organization.

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Leading the renewal of core banking user interface platform, a transformative initiative to design and implement a modern, scalable platform from the scratch. Overseeing the design and architecture of the new core banking platform, ensuring seamless integration of existing backend systems through the development of middleware APIs.
• Creating a low-code, drag-and-drop frontend development tool to streamline and accelerate the creation of user interfaces.
• This role combines strategic planning, technical leadership, and hands-on development to deliver a cutting-edge banking platform aligned with business objectives and user needs.
• Technologies:
• React 19, Java 21, Spring Boot 3
• Node.js, REST, Oracle, JSONForms

Jul 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Installment Loans Account Management Team Leader @Softtech
• Provide leadership and direction for team members, supervising activities to drive productivity and efficiency
• Foster positive relationship among team members through effective communication
• Lead team of 10+ members
• Taking part in architectural decision making and initiate projects with hands-on coding
• Hire and develop team members
• Make performance evaluations and regular one-on-one meetings
• Communicating with internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting and/or participating all agile rituals as we apply the Scrum working model
• Leading Modernization of Loan Reference System Project:
• Converting a monolithic project to a microservice based project with hands-on experience in Docker, Openshift and Spring Boot.
• Led Decommissioning of IMS (IMS to DB2)-Loans Account Management:
• This part of the transformation project consists of the decommissioning legacy IMS db. During the decommissioning process, both IMS and DB2 databases co-existed (data written both databases using a single transaction, starts from Java backend service and ends with COBOL backend service). A brand new loans account management module was created. New Java core services are written using Spring Framework. IBM Wola Adapter used for single transaction architecture. The entire installment loan disbursement process re-platformed. Led the project as backend engineer role
• Technologies:
• Java 8+, EJB, JSF, JAX-WS, Spring Framework, Spring Boot
• ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, MVC, WCF
• SOA, SOAP, REST
• IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Websphere Application Server, IBM MQ
• JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js, Ajax
• IBM DB2, Oracle, MsSQL
• Z/OS Mainframe, COBOL, IMS, JCL
• GIT, TFS, Maven, Docker, OpenShift, TDD
• Jira, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Jenkins
• Tech Skills:
• Understand Software Engineering Best Practices
• Consistently Seeking and Learning New Technology
• Manage Multiple Projects in a Deadline-Driven Environment
• Participate in Source Code and Design Reviews

Jan 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Lead Software Developer @Softtech
• Responsible for Loans Account Management Module (Core Banking Infrastructure Transformation Project)
• Led Loans Cash Flow Module (COBOL to JAVA) (Core Banking Infrastructure Transformation Project):
• Entire legacy (COBOL) loans cash flow process, rewritten in Java. A brand new loans cash flow module was created. Java backend services are written using Spring Framework. ASP.NET MVC5 and jQuery used for frontend. The module consists of; payment plan preparation panels, payment plan, and payment calculation services, and DB2 database design. Led the project as full-stack developer role.

Jul 2012 – Jan 2017 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Senior Software Developer @Softtech
• Responsible for Loan Reference System application (web application connects İş Bank to KKB):
• Every single loan application requires a personal credit rating as a part of the application evaluation process. The Loan Reference System is a large-scale, complex application that retrieves credit ratings and mass credit details from KKB. Nearly a million online transaction flows through this application every day via direct TCP-IP connection. There is also a batch process that operates via FTP communication, millions of data written to Oracle database just a couple of hours. IBM MQ transfers requests and responses to legacy systems. High availability, high processing speed are critical.
• Led NakitNet Project:
• NakitNet is a fully automated platform that enables customers to buy products using cash loans without leaving any retail store. Led the project in a full-stack developer role. Both frontend and backend architecture rely on .NET technologies.
• Led Loan Account Statement Project:
• The project consists of sending loan account statements via MMS and e-mail. A batch job is written in Java using Spring Framework.
• General optimization/maintenance of Installment Loans web and mainframe applications both frontend and backend.

Nov 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• • General optimization/maintenance of Installment Loans web and mainframe applications both frontend and backend.

Jan 2012 – Dec 2012 · 11 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Friendsby is a social, location based mobile application that allows you to meet up with your friends nearby.

Apr 2010 – Nov 2010 · 7 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• İş Bank Core Banking Transformation Project (MOD):
• Developed Customer Portfolio batch processes and several integration services.
• Technologies:
• Java EE, IBM Rational Application Developer, IBM Websphere Application Server, Spring Framework.

Aug 2009 – Sep 2009 · 1 mo · Istanbul, Turkey

Aug 2008 – Sep 2008 · 1 mo · Istanbul, Turkey