Emre Akyürek

Engineering Manager

United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Employee Experience Solutions Engineering Manager at Turkish Technology
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Lead and manage a 30-member multidisciplinary team in designing, developing, and optimizing diverse employee experience solutions across multiple domains. • Oversee the development of HR and administrative process automation, a comprehensive travel experience application integrating aviation-specific Pass ticketing systems, and a mobile superapp that consolidates 40+ distinct processes and applications to enhance employee experience and productivity. • Drive the development of both mobile and web applications, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and user-centric design across different platforms. • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, particularly HR, administrative affairs, operations, and finance, to align technology initiatives with strategic employee experience objectives. • Provide technology solutions and support for 9 subsidiary companies, ensuring consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all organizations. • Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to foster continuous innovation and elevate the overall employee journey. • Cultivate a culture of agility, collaboration, and continuous learning, promoting knowledge sharing and best practices within the engineering team. • Utilize data-driven insights and user feedback to iteratively refine and enhance mobile and web-based employee experience platforms. • Ensure strict compliance with security and data privacy regulations throughout the development process. • Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and direction, ensuring the successful and timely delivery of projects within budget constraints.

  • Turkcell Global Bilgi (Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye)
    • Digital and Enterprise Software Development Manager
      Aug 2016 - Mar 2023 · 6 yrs 8 mos

      - Responsibilities Digital and Enterprise Solutions unit include managing a team of approximately 20 resources including software developers, business analysts and testers to support the business that is responsible for providing customer experience and employee productivity. - Reorganized the team, established and implemented efficient SDLC processes and fostered the transition to Agile. Practiced iterative Agile development cycle based on Kanban. - Ensuring all relevant process steps including sprint planning, retrospectives, grooming, sprint reviews and daily standups. - Planning Agile-influenced parts of the large-scale projects in the Agile team. - Perform the necessary measurements in the project and monitor the KPIs - Responsible to lead enterprise and digital applications, mobile applications, ERP (SAP) systems, HR, finance, knowledge management, Social Media Analytics, Enterprise Content Management (ICR, OCR), R&D & TUBİTAK Projects. - By Leading the digital transformation, the next generation Digital HR and Employee Experience product designed. With this initiative we qualified as a “GPTW Certificated Company” - Created innovative projects: Imlec (Gamified Crowdsourcing), Ghost (RPA Platform), Notify (Mobile push, web push, email, and in-app messages), GoDigital (Live Video Stream), TGB AI Chatbot (Natural Language Understanding), MetaBase (open source selfservice data analytics tool), Oyna (Quiz Game), ASSOS (WFM), etc. - Support business in choosing, designing and maintaining innovative and new solutions. Established a trusting and collaborative relationship between the Business and Tech. - Streamlined Business Solutions (75 products) into 1 manageable product (ERP – SAP ):Globalim (Mobile & Web) - Conducted research for open source technologies and sources such as Elastic, SOLR, Mongo DB, React-Native, Angular, Dotnet Core, Nodejs, Open NLP, Python. - Budget management. - Leading resource management, outsourcing and vendor management processes.

    • Senior Product Manager
      Jan 2013 - Aug 2016 · 3 yrs 8 mos

      - Focusing on web-based (C#,ASP.Net, MVC, Web API,WCF, Angular, Javascript), mobile (IOS,Android), B2B, ERP and SAP applications. - Expertise in identifying customer needs, creating and validating user stories (business requirements) and partnering with Software Development in Agile approach to support launch. - Strong emphasis on communications, business analysis, metrics and measurements, process driven analysis, team building, and customer relations. - Hands-on management balancing customer needs with technology solutions for cost-effective, profitable solutions. - Works closely with strategic customers, members of the HR, Finance, Sales, Development and operations to ensure continuity in product offering and company goals. - Manages new developments, implements, promotes, and maintains the Large Enterprise applications product lines like Birlink (Custom ERP System), iGlobal (Mobile ERP), Flexi Performance, Time Management, Invoice, Performance Management System

    • Product Manager
      Feb 2012 - Jan 2013 · 1 yr

      - Focused on web-based (C#,ASP.Net, WCF, Javascript), mobile (IOS,Android), B2B, ERP and SAP services. - Managing, promoting, planning and executing the product life cycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining the product vision. - Experienced working closely with executive management to determine overall product strategy and goals while ensuring customer satisfaction. - Managed enterprise product portfolio, development plan and SDLC for Agile development process. - Managed new developments, implements, promotes, and maintains the Large Enterprise applications product lines like Birlink (Custom ERP System), iGlobal (Mobile ERP), Flexi Performance, Time Management, Invoice, Biztalk, IDM, Integration Project for Turkcell and Turkcell Group Companies.

  • Software Development Specialist at Interlink
    Jun 2008 - Jan 2009 · 8 mos

    - Providing software used to manage a variety of manufacturing and production processes. - Offers a variety of professional services including consulting, training, and support. - Developing B2B and B2C E-commerce application.

  • Software Development Specialist at Integreal Software & Consultancy
    Jan 2008 - Jun 2008 · 6 mos

    - Developing system integration projects (i.e. B2B projects), web applications and back office systems Consultancy on infrastructure projects and software development projects - Developing online banking system for one of the biggest bank in Saudi Arabia.

  • Intern at Erdemir
    Jun 2006 - Sep 2006 · 4 mos

    - Training in Erdemir Data Process Center - Testing lost power for fiber optic cable - Developing software program about factory cable map