Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye
IT Director specializing in high-availability infrastructure, resilience engineering and business continuity architecture. I lead the core operational systems of a large-scale digital platform in a regulated, high-transaction environment, ensuring 24/7 reliability and sustained service continuity. My experience includes end-to-end system architecture design, multi-datacenter continuity planning, automated failover implementation, disaster recovery strategy, and vendor ecosystem leadership with global technology providers (e.g., Dell Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Citrix). In addition to my professional role, I actively contribute to the technology community. Since 2018, I have served as a Judge at FIRST Robotics Competitions (FRC), evaluating engineering design and technical execution across participating teams. I have also been invited as a panel speaker at industry events, sharing insights on infrastructure resilience, operational continuity and technology strategy.
Leading the design, operation and continuous improvement of high-availability infrastructure supporting a large-scale digital platform in a regulated, high-transaction environment. Focus on resilience engineering, operational continuity and scalable growth. Key responsibilities and achievements include: • Designed and implemented the organization’s first end-to-end Disaster Recovery architecture, including platform design, technology selection, procurement and deployment. • Established dual-site resilience with both Active-Active and Active-Passive operational modes, enabling automated failover and ensuring continuous platform availability without service disruption. • Directed multi-datacenter operations, capacity planning and scaling strategies for a real-time, 24/7 mission-critical platform. • Oversaw vendor partnerships with global technology providers aligning platform evolution with industry best practices and regulatory compliance. • Led cross-functional engineering and operations teams, ensuring reliable service delivery, performance optimization and long-term infrastructure roadmap planning.
Managing system unit team. Responsibilities are, providing hardware and OS support to 500 windows, unix and linux servers Active directory 2008 domain, MS Exchange 2010. Installing, managing and upkeeping virtualization infrastructure (Vmware and Hyper-V servers).
Responsibilities are, providing hardware and OS support to 300 windows servers Active directory 2008 domain, MS Exchange 2007. Installing, managing and upkeeping virtualization infrastructure (Vmware and Hyper-V servers). Installing various servers in several IT projects (SCOM,Lync 2010 Migration, SCCM, RMS,Epicor 9ERP,RSA SecureID,Vmware)