Istanbul, Türkiye
Engineering leader and senior software engineer with experience building and scaling data-intensive systems. Deep technical foundation in distributed systems and AI engineering. Equally comfortable driving architecture decisions, leading engineering organizations, and understanding the business context behind technical decisions.
Advised and co-built an e-commerce analytics platform for Shopify merchants, taking full ownership of the technical stack from architecture to production. - Designed and implemented the core application, data pipeline, and ecosystem integrations from scratch - Scaled the analytics engine, significantly improving query performance and enabling new product capabilities - Introduced agentic AI workflows, enabling the founding team to independently operate and evolve the product
Built a blockchain analytics platform from the ground up, owning the full technical stack from data ingestion to analytical dashboards. - Designed and implemented the complete data pipeline — from node integration and real-time block ingestion to full blockchain history storage, achieving sub-second processing latency with async ingestion - Architected the system for extensibility across multiple chains, including an address labeling layer for on-chain entity identification - Developed analytical backend and UI dashboards for on-chain data exploration
Built and led a unified infrastructure organization, transforming how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate software at scale. - Grew and managed a department of 60+ engineers across platform engineering, systems administration, and SRE — improving platform uptime to five nines - Eliminated cross-team deployment bottlenecks by decoupling CI/CD pipelines, enabling 30–35 teams to ship independently multiple times per day - Led migration to microservices architecture and cloud platform impacting 300+ engineers, launching Semrush App Center with third-party integrations
Led Core Team as product owner, delivering shared platform services across the engineering organization. - Owned delivery of shared core services — user management, authorization, rate limiting, API gateway, and admin tooling — used as the foundation for all product releases - Defined platform standards and best practices adopted across the engineering organization, reducing duplication and speeding up delivery - Worked closely with engineering leads to balance platform stability with the evolving needs of 30+ product teams
Contributed to core platform development, focusing on billing infrastructure and service extraction from the monolith. - Built API usage-based billing and subscription mechanics for the core billing platform - Initiated and led extraction of user data from the monolith, delivering a user service adopted organization-wide as an internal standard - Served as Scrum Master during the company's agile transformation, driving adoption across engineering teams
Built media processing pipelines and real-time content delivery infrastructure for a 3D photo platform.
Designed and built real-time video streaming infrastructure and multimedia content delivery platform.