Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Spearheaded the design and implementation of a low-latency, in-house trading engine to replace a legacy third-party system, enabling performance gains, and full control over the trading stack.
• Developed robust integration infrastructure to facilitate a seamless transition of trading strategies from the third-party engine to the in-house platform with minimal downtime and behavioral drift.
• Collaborated closely with the quantitative research team to co-develop and implement trading strategies, ensuring optimal performance within the new engine.
• Contributed to the design and implementation of execution algorithms, focusing on minimizing slippage and improving fill rates across multiple asset classes.
• Led development of the internal GUI used by traders and researchers to monitor, analyze, and control live trading strategies.
• Applied in-depth knowledge of low-latency Linux server tuning, including CPU isolation, IRQ balancing, NIC configuration, and kernel optimizations. Authored automated Bash scripts to standardize and reproduce tuning across environments.
• Wrote utility Bash scripts to automate recurring development and deployment processes, improving team productivity and reducing operational overhead.

Nov 2020 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• I was responsible for various projects and working closely with traders and hedge fund managers. Mostly focused on high performance client-server architectures for the trading software and tools.
• Designed and implemented the main trading GUI used in-house by all traders. Also written the server side of the application. This application improved trading process efficiency and security substantially.
• Designed and implemented a GUI for in-house use to allow traders to monitor their orders and positions with executions occurring on the exchange. Also developed the server application for the GUI client. This application aims to replace a 3rd party solution we use on a daily basis that lags behind frequently.
• Architected a GUI application to be used by all traders to monitor security orderbooks and place orders for the desired price levels.
• Debugging and maintaining the trading application.

Oct 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs · Istanbul, Turkey · On-site

• - Involved in development of cross-platform Protect MyMachine /3D Twin Edge application. This application allows users to create and place the job setups on the machine tool's 3D Kinematic model to prevent any collisions during operation.

Apr 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Involved in designing highly available and scalable banking infrastructure. Automated crucial and routine tasks on mainframe environment.
• Designed and implemented a mainframe application to move volumes between disks safer and faster. The application reduced the time for the process substantially. It was heavily depended on during data center relocation. Received a patent for the application.