Burak Koç

Engineering Manager

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Software Engineering Manager at Trendyol Group
    Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Software Engineering Team Lead at Hepsiburada (NASDAQ: HEPS)
    Aug 2023 - Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Hepsiburada is one of Turkey's leading e-commerce platforms, offering a wide range of products and services to millions of customers. Known for its innovative approach and customer-centric solutions, Hepsiburada combines technology and logistics expertise to deliver seamless online shopping experiences. HepsiAd is Hepsiburada's dedicated advertising platform, designed to help brands and sellers reach their target audience effectively. By leveraging advanced analytics and Hepsiburada's vast customer base, HepsiAd provides tailored advertising solutions, including sponsored product listings and display ads, to maximize visibility and drive sales on the platform. Responsible for leading the HepsiAd engineering team, overseeing the software development lifecycle, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions. My focus is enhancing the team collaboration, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and driving the strategic direction of our projects to align with the company’s goals. Our main tech stack consists of C# .NET, GO Lang, Elastic Search, Apache Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDb.

  • CTO & Co-Founder at Lumos Games
    Mar 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    I am the Co-Founder of the company. The team consists of 15 people, including Game Artists, Software Engineers, User Acquisition Specialists, Game Managers and Level Designers. We Released 80+ games for mobile platform (iOS and Android) using C# Unity. Deployed and managed in-house CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins.

  • Digital Platform Software Architect at TOGG | Türkiye'nin Otomobili Girişim Grubu
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Responsible for designing architecture of the digital platform and identity management system.

  • Ford Otosan (4 yrs)
    • Connected Vehicle & Services Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
      Jul 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr

      I worked on ConnecTruck app which is the mobile application and portal side of heavy duty vehicle connectivity. I worked on both back-end structures and database platforms to support vehicle connectivity cloud in alignment with IOT and customer related structures driven from Ford Otosan CRM. We developed with .NET Core technologies on Cloud platform. Further, I worked with other connectivity related projects for other types of vehicles and main connectivity platform.

    • Smart Mobility Software Engineer (Backend)
      Sep 2018 - Jul 2019 · 11 mos

      Responsible from Back-end development and deployment of Easy Route mobile app and managing cloud architecture. Backend of the app was written in Node.js . After that successfully changed to .NET CORE with radical changes to backend architecture using Entity Framwork as ORM. Also parallel to the ongoing job, developed an interface between vehicle CAN communication and mobile application for vehicle connectivity demo.

    • Smart Mobility Software Engineer (Android)
      Dec 2017 - Sep 2018 · 10 mos

      Responsible from Android development and deployment of Easy Route mobile app which has more than 50.000 active user monthly. Also successfully developed Ford Sync 3 (Applink) integration of the app. Sync 3 is the multimedia system of Ford vehicles which supports connection for phones. It enables the vehicles touch screen to control the app via unique UI/UX for the driver.