Mar 2023 – Jan 2026 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Lead and supported multiple projects, namely Nostro and Nostro Liquidity (where real time liquidity is tracked), Escrow Management, SOC Pricing, and Crypto Brokerage, Decision Making System, Wealth Products in EmiratesNBD X App, and Enterprise Deduplication is just some of the projects.
• Lead engineering in Treasury, Wealth, and Risk&Compliance in Business Platforms.
• Implemented engineering-wide (1400+ software engineers) Code Review Metric and provided a %75 increase in collaboration.
• Implemented engineering-wide Onboarding Excellence and optimized engineering onboarding by %85.
• Solutions to increase reliability (regression test automation framework + automated counter) implemented
• Initiated traceability and observability RFI/RFP to increase customer satisfaction and increase NPS for the group.
• Technologies: NodeJS, React, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Calypso, FinIQ, Advent
• Team Size: 120+ | Hands-on: 0%

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Being a permanent member of CAB meetings (Zero P0 defects during my time)
• Building the Growth Framework for engineering paths, JDs, and feedback structure
• Launching Rewards and Recognition program.
• Leading the company from a Bahrain company to a global player by delivering rain.com
• Launching engineering-wide initiatives like branching strategy, template application to be a base to monolith to microservice journey, modernization of CICD pipelines.
• Technologies: GoLang, Heroku, Kong, Vault, Terraform, ArgoCD
• Team Size: 100+ | Hands-on: 20%

Jun 2021 – Apr 2022 · 10 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Build product team, work with them to set priorities, and support stakeholder management.
• Inspire, mentor, and lead and scale engineering teams to achieve OKRs.
• Setting engineering-wide policies, protocols, and procedures.
• Building & launching the discovery campaign, reducing p90 times x170
• Building state of art CICD pipelines for continuity/utilization of development efforts.
• Leading the company from idea to realization for the projects.
• The proposition of COFE Coin.
• Technologies: Java, Docker, AWS, SonarQube, Flyway, Vault, Terraform, ArgoCD, K8s, Nexus, Swift, Firebase, Appium, Jest, Fastlane, Bitrise, ReactiveX, Apollo/GraphQL, NodeJS, Travis.
• Team Size: 20 | Hands-on: 80%

Jan 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Cross functional team management working remotely from Poland, Russia, Pakistan.
• Working with product management.
• Building a resilient data ingestion mechanisms to process billions of events over the cloud computing
• Architecting, building and maintaining a 100% accurate and fast reporting engine.
• Managing data warehouse project, fixing anomalies, and ETL pipelines.
• Increasing the code quality through analytics and adapting team to agile methodologies during software development activities.
• Technologies: Kotlin+JVM, git, Kubernetes+Docker, DroneCI, ArgoCD, TerraForm, ECR, Nexus, PostgreSQL, RedShift, Kafka, S3, Redis, SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, 12 Factor MicroService Architecture, Swagger, Actuator, Grafana, Locust, Filebeat, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Vertica
• Team Size: 5 | Hands-on: 90%

Jan 2016 – Dec 2019 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Bringing the idea into real life with a viable engineering solution with building a team and enhancing the power of teamwork.
• Designing and implementing healthy data integration with various financial systems.
• Establishing long life partnerships with customers, communication with all stakeholders.
• Enabling automated stock-data exchanges with e-commerce systems.
• Leading R&D activities for sales prediction algorithms.
• Building an observability stack with automated CI/CD and integrating all to the software development efforts.
• Technologies: PHP, AngularJS, Balsamiq, git, AWS CodePipeline, Buddy, Cloud Formation, MySQL, MSSQL, SQS, SNS, S3, R53, Firewall, VPC, EC2, Scrum.
• Team Size: 6 | Hands-on: 100%

Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 · 6 yrs · Galatasaray, İstanbul

• Planning and managing yearly budget, reporting directly to general manager
• Ensuring high availability of company services and servers (Windows & Linux)
• Implementing and auditing company wide protocols for backup and security
• Managing development, maintenance of financial systems (Logo ERP, Custom ERP)
• Launching educational campaigns to improve IT awareness of employees
• Analyzing hardware conditions and software improvements, planning deployments to fulfill needs.
• Implementing license protocols for softwares, documenting company licenses.
• Managing eBook (eKitap) production process, assuring quality and cost effectiveness.
• Being the eBook technical consultant of YayBir (Publishers Association)
• Managing E-Invoice and E-Ledger (eFatura / eDefter) process, providing healthy integration with gib.gov.tr
• Designing and implementing online sale systems using VISA.
• Applying startup rules to canyayinlari.com to create self sustaining online business
• Managing all software development process (experience in many SDLC, favor of Scrum)
• Directing development and management of e-commerce systems (B2B and B2C)
• Technologies: Linux/Windows Servers, RAID, NAS, EC2, PHP/MySQL, MSSQL, Javascript, NginX, Java, Spring Boot.
• Team Size: 20 | Hands-on: %20