Greater Enschede Area
I am a Product Manager, Entrepreneur, and Software Leader with 20+ years of experience across automotive, defense, and SaaS industries. I’ve led the transformation of open-source technology into ISO 26262–certified automotive solutions, and founded a digital signing SaaS platform in Türkiye, achieving ETSI PAdES compliance and enterprise adoption. With deep technical expertise and PMP/ACP-certified leadership, I excel in guiding cross-functional teams and building trusted, high-performance products. Beyond technology, I am a Critical Thinking and Peaceful World Activist, committed to creating solutions that foster both innovation and global understanding.
I have been building and leading digital signing SaaS platform in Türkiye, taking it from concept to a trusted solution for enterprise clients. Key Achievements: • Founded and scaled the business by identifying a market need, driving innovation, and leading the end-to-end journey from research and prototyping to production. • Built a compliant product aligned with ETSI PAdES standards, ensuring trust, legal validity, and international interoperability. • Recruited and led development teams, while also being hands-on in architecture, coding, and ensuring seamless integration across the software stack. • End-to-end business ownership: prepared enterprise proposals, engaged directly with customers, delivered onboarding and support, and maintained data center infrastructure to guarantee uptime and security. • Growth & Market Presence: launched and managed the company website, led marketing activities, and developed long-term client relationships across multiple sectors. Impact: Successfully created a full-fledged SaaS business from scratch, combining technical excellence with entrepreneurial vision — managing everything from innovation to customer success.
Innovating and guiding the creation of groundbreaking, high-tech solutions that set new benchmarks in safety and performance. Key Contributions: • Customer Engagement & Business Development: Prepared detailed technical proposals for RFPs and conducted on-site visits with leading automotive companies in Korea and beyond. Presented and explained how DDS (Data Distribution Service) can be effectively adapted to the automotive domain, building trust with partners across diverse cultural backgrounds. • Functional Safety Leadership: Led the transformation of a battle-proven open-source product toward ISO 26262 functional safety certification, ensuring compliance without compromising on innovation and efficiency. • Culture & Process Transformation: Drove organizational change by embedding functional safety standards into company culture, while maintaining agility and high productivity across engineering teams. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with solution architects, engineering, and marketing teams to align technical excellence with business goals, ensuring consistency across the full software production lifecycle. • Deep Technical Understanding: Leveraged hands-on knowledge of software production “from the bottom up,” bridging the gap between development, certification, and customer needs to deliver robust, high-performance solutions. Impact: Successfully positioned the product and organization as a trusted partner in the automotive sector, combining cutting-edge technology with safety-critical certification and customer-focused innovation.
In my role as a Functional Safety Manager, I spearheaded the initiative to align our open-source product with ISO 26262 standards, a pivotal step in enhancing its functional safety for automotive applications. This endeavor involved closely collaborating with our partner leading automotive company TTTech Auto, leveraging their deep industry expertise to guide our efforts. My primary responsibilities included: Strategic Planning: Developed and executed a comprehensive plan to integrate ISO 26262 functional safety standards into our product, ensuring compliance and enhancing market competitiveness. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Facilitated a dynamic partnership with our experienced automotive partner, fostering an environment of knowledge exchange and mutual growth. Adaptation and Implementation: Skillfully adapted our open-source product to meet the rigorous demands of ISO 26262, addressing complex challenges in safety-critical systems. Project Management: Oversaw the project lifecycle, ensuring milestones were met within the stipulated timeline while maintaining high standards of quality and safety. Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively communicated progress and challenges to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and support throughout the project. This role was crucial in not only elevating the safety standards of our product but also in advancing my skills in project management, industry collaboration, and strategic application of safety standards in technology products.
Led a team of engineers within a large-scale CMMI Level 5 defense project, ensuring delivery of high-reliability middleware components under strict schedules and quality standards. Key Contributions: • Team Leadership: Directed day-to-day activities, including task planning, progress monitoring, and adherence to tight project calendars. • Core Technical Deliverables: Led development of the middleware framework, APIs, and tools, as well as the Time Synchronization CSCI and Hardware Isolation CSCI. • Process & Quality: Drove process improvements within the project to meet CMMI Level 5 standards, ensuring consistent, auditable, and efficient software development. • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborated with project management and engaged directly with customers to define scope, negotiate requirements, and provide technical clarity. • Training & Knowledge Transfer: Delivered workshop trainings to customer teams, supporting smooth adoption of development tools and methods. • Requirements Management: Maintained rigorous requirements tracking and traceability to support certification and compliance needs. Impact: Delivered mission-critical middleware software that met strict defense standards, while improving development processes and strengthening customer relationships.