Partner At Leadport

• Nov 2020 - Present

Founder & Director

• Apr 2019 - Present

Episerver Commerce Developer / Tech Lead

• Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

Adding new features and fixing bugs on Episerver CMS and Commerce part for thewinesociety.com. Introduced new scheduled jobs for 3rd party integrations, added complex queries to Find, and upgraded the cms/commerce to last minor versions. Implemented the google tag manager / google analytics tracking for GA3 and GA4 including the cookie consent tool requirements and fixed the tracking bugs. Mentoring/Coaching the internal team on both agile/scrum transition and Episerver CMS/Commerce technology.

Tech Lead / Lead Developer

• Sep 2019 - Jul 2021

Working in an agile environment both kanban/scrum as technical lead / lead developer. Episerver CMS/Commerce development using asp.net/MVC, Vue.js front end. Development of .net core rest APIs and upgrading them from version 2.2 to 3.1. Building and maintaining azure app services, azure functions, logic apps, azure containers. Designing the full Azure devops CI/CD pipelines including containerization and azure container services. Architecting and leading integration with backend systems (SAP integtration both through APIs, direct DB connections and MAGMA, internal booking ERP systems, internal Event management systems, telephony, and payment systems like Smartpay). Building automation test / load test environments using linux containers and grafana connected to Apache Jmeter.

Tech Lead

• Sep 2019 - Jul 2021

Building features for POS system with PHP backend APIs and React PWA front-end. Solution design and architecting projects. Building features for POS system with PHP backend APIs and React PWA front-end. Solution design and architecting projects.

Consultant & Mentor & Architect

• Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

Continued consulting on the project after moving to London. More hands-on with the client.

Consultant & Mentor

• Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

Started to consult on a fin-tech project made for UK market. The project is on micro-services architecture and I am mentoring off-shore & remote developers and business stakeholders.The project is built on .Net Core tech stack and planned to run on docker swarm inside a private cloud environment (on premise). I am consulting on the architectural decisions both for infrastructure and application level. Decided to use Redis cache for logging purposes, rabbitMQ for KYC and 3rd party payment service provider operations and sanction check apis, traefik for docker load balancing, prometeus & grafana for health & performance monitoring etc…Established Azure API management integrations and implemented CI/CD on Azure (Jenkins setups), then re-setup CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins, GitHub) on the private cloud environment, started to plan proper unit testing procedures then started to evolve the culture to the TDD. Consulting on QA automation, selenium test scenarios, sonarqube test coverage rates and Git push deliveries to dev & staging environments.Consulting on the documentation (Architectural documentations, UML diagrams etc..)

Technology Group Director & Project Management Director

• Apr 2014 - Apr 2019

Leading & managing technology team - web & mobile app development and full architecture (Front-end, back-end and andriod & IOS developers).Leading & managing project management team (Agile & waterfall methodoliges).Provide day-to-day management of both technology and project management teams.Create and manage IoT projects and creative technology projects. Build-up McDonald's Turkey's digital sales (delivery services) by developing & launching new e-commerce software developed & designed from scratch in a very strict deadline.(from UX to infrastructure design).Refactored all FIAT Turkey's lead generation process on digital presence from UX to software integration and doubled the digital lead counts along with actual sales from digital channels.Lead enterprise, consumer web portal data science and analytics activities. Setup FIAT Turkey's all consumer sites' analytics mechanisms using GTM and CRM integrations. Lead FIAT on DMP integrations & setups (Oracle BlueKai and IBM watson DMP).Deep understanding of digital & rich media technologies and strategies. As a google doubleclick studio evangelist, created first dynamic creative for Peugeot in Turkey. Implemented advanced digital ad & marketing scenarios for clients (THY, FIAT, TicToc)Perform project estimation & scoping activities.Work closely with creative & strategy team and clients to facilitate idea creation process and define clear and innovative execution paths.Build long-term relationships with clients , by mentoring & coaching on their business models and evolve their way of doings. Played the information security manager role and acquired the ISO 27001 certificate from Bureau Veritas audit.

Head Of Technology

• Feb 2013 - Apr 2014

Team leading of software developers of the agency. Provide day-to-day management of technology team.Leading and managing digital projects such as social apps (facebook apps, twitter apps etc.) micro web sites, corporate CMS platforms, e-commerce solutions, mobile apps (IOS). Deep knowledge of social media API's and mechanisms.Hands-on development of software products(.Net, javascript, jquery, css and advanced relational database usage, architecturing)Managing outsource & freelance network of software developers.As a creative team and board member , define & create new service,product offerings and improve agency's technical & creative expertise.

Co-Founder & Partner

• Sep 2008 - Feb 2013

Founded the start-up company which got startup funds and location support from KOSGEB with LMS (location management system) project, primarily located at Bogazici University techo-park. Did research & development and developed lms SAAS applications using mobile operators location services with a team of 3-4 developers. Became mobile operators SMS partners ( first Turkcell then Turk Telekom), developed sms delivery service and platforms for the company. Re-developed my old companies (global securities) e-trade platform from the scratch using Asp.Net and Atp web services (erp base of trading platform) Design & developed a full service e-commerce platform and build 20-30 ecommerce web sites using .Net. Desing & developed &managed online booking web portal, integrated with 3rd party hotels providers and setup two way integrations both for data consume and booking mechanisms over api's. Also managed integrating the airline ticketing mechnaisms. Developed custom software products for brands and agencies such as custom erp systems, cms solutions , intranet portals etc...

Team Leader & Senior Software Architect

• May 2007 - Apr 2008

Team leading and project management of online Insurance software. Both B2C and B2B parts are being developed ( tekfensigorta.com.tr) Integrating and migrating the online insurance system for HSBC bank to whole its branches (Bankassurance project). Project management of UA test processes with HSBC ITC team at India. Desing & develop Albaraka Turk ( a private bank) intranet portal using .Net. Integrate & develop various internal banking modules. Software desing and development of Hurriyet's (biggest online & offline newspaper of Turkey) advertisement erp system. Development of online survey system (for MedyaNET) Development of online chat system using ajax & .Net. Development & analysis & software architect of various corporate cms web sites using .Net & Mssql server (self invented & founded cms system)

Senior Software Engineer

• Oct 2006 - May 2007

Software development of Netron-CMS system & framework for tff.org ( Turkish football federation's web site) using .Net framework 2.0 and C#. Software design and development of Intranet project for Sanovel (a pharma company) Developed some parts of LMS (Learning management system) for Citibank Turkey Lms project. Software development of Netron-CMS system & framework for tff.org ( Turkish football federation's web site) using .Net framework 2.0 and C#. Software design and development of Intranet project for Sanovel (a pharma company) Developed some parts of LMS (Learning management system) for Citibank Turkey Lms project.

Development Team Lead

• Oct 2004 - Jul 2006

My first digital agency experince. I Developed&designed ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET projects using MSSQL and ORACLE DB for digital clients (Akbank, Delloite Turkey, Koç Allianz, Abank). Re-engineered current ASP web sites adding functionality to them. I also team lead of 3-4 developers. I was responsible for analysing & management of the projects, too. My first digital agency experince. I Developed&designed ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET projects using MSSQL and ORACLE DB for digital clients (Akbank, Delloite Turkey, Koç Allianz, Abank). Re-engineered current ASP web sites adding functionality to them. I also team lead of 3-4 developers. I was responsible for analysing & management of the projects, too.

Project Manager & Senior Software Engineer

• Aug 2000 - Aug 2004

Started as a project manager for enterprise financial applications and as a part of my job I managed to travel abroad to find talented people & companies which the company hired. I managed those multinational teams & companies to build companies financial applications. After the financial crysis the company managed to shut-down the outsource development and started to develop inhouse. I developed visual basic applications & components. Design & develop corporate web site, intranet web site and sub brands web site using ASP and MSSQL Server (Cms systems). Finally I developed e-trading platform of the company using JSP, servlets, java classes, struts framework and MSSQL running under web logic application server for 2 years.

Software Engineering Consultant

• Sep 1999 - Aug 2000

Providing consultancy to banking sector with COOL:GEN case tool (CA corp.). Worked as a consultant cool:gen developer using Allshare corp's banking solution "Questor" for Abank, developed the money transfer section of core banking system. Providing consultancy to banking sector with COOL:GEN case tool (CA corp.). Worked as a consultant cool:gen developer using Allshare corp's banking solution "Questor" for Abank, developed the money transfer section of core banking system.