Istanbul, Türkiye
Accepting challenges is the basis of my life experience and something I do with confidence. I am diligent, creative and communicative. As well as being a good motivator and organizer, teamwork is another skill I have acquired and one, I think is essential for organizational cohesiveness. I believe I am a totally committed individual possessing the qualities that make an excellent career in Software Development.
Market Incentives Squads After successful 8 months in GetirBiTaksi, I started working with Incentives Squads which consists of 18-22 people. Here, I led engineers from 6 different competency areas: IOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), Go, Node.js, React and Quality Assurance. I was also overseeing GetirBiTaksi Squad as well. Here we started breaking the monolith applications into microservices. We also embraced a polyglot approach for back-end languages, started using Go as well. Due to high level incident rates, we also focused on stability issues. While we were cleaning our tech debts, I created a focus group in the company with volunteered 60 people. We resolved a common technical problem for all company. At that point I became Interim Senior Engineering Manager in April 2023. After we made our systems a lot more robust, we implemented 'product discounts' project with many Squads in Market Tribe. We also implemented global panel migration, refer a friend, SAP integration, product exclusion projects. Incentives in Market Tribe was the most diverse squad ever in the company with a great balance in genders and cultures. We had engineers from many different locations such as Netherlands, Nigeria, Belarus, India, Germany and Turkey. Here I also hired Engineering Managers as well. At the end I was leading Incentives Squads with two great Engineering Managers as my direct reports. Gorillas Squads After finishing the most desired feature of Incentives Squad, I started working with Gorillas Squads which consists of 10-12 people. Here I could only spent 1 month. I became Senior Engineering Manager at my last weeks. However I decided to make a shift in my career. In Getir, I led many projects, teams, I mentored many engineers and managers from different cultures. I reached approximately 40 people size in the squads I led. It was the most exciting ride of my entire career with many ups and downs. I had a unique experience I couldn't even imagine. Thanks to all getirians.
My Getir journey started with GetirBiTaksi Squad which consists of 8 people. Here, I led engineers from 4 different competency areas: IOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), Go and Quality Assurance. First, I improved the processes by teaching Scrum practices, then we changed the team language from Turkish to English in line with our 'global tech company' vision. On the monitoring side, we prepared Newrelic and Cloudwatch Dashboards. We integrated sonarcloud for code quality and created a tech debt backlog. We made our entire application architecture visible using C4 models. Together, we have implemented long-requested product features in a short amount of time, such as taximeter-on, pay with tip, campaigns, back-to-back trips, tab navigator, checkout process change. In addition, we made our resource usage more efficient and made cost cuts of up to 80% in total on AWS, Kubernates and Mongo. We implemented DORA metrics to see our improvement areas. I also trained a senior engineer as a manager in GetirBiTaksi Squad. We were one of the teams with the lowest turnover rate.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Leader of 2022 in GittiGidiyor eBay I was responsible for 10 employee groups which were working with civil society organizations in Turkey. I was assigned this leadership role due to fact that I designed and coordinated the "Technology Academy Program". I prepared, designed, and led Technology Academy Program. I was also a teacher & a mentor in the academy. I gave two different courses such as Scrum 101 and Real Life Examples From GittiGidiyor Domain (PHP + JAVA). I was a common mentor for all mentees & mentors. I worked with 22 instructors, 7 mentors, 7 mentees and 3 managers. I organized many events for coordination under the topics of; teacher & mentor selection from our own software engineers, hiring interviews, preparing course materials, retrospectives, receiving feedback, candidate evaluations, manager reviews, decision-making, etc. I got an amazing chance to touch young people who recently graduated from associate degree programs. At the end of 3 months Technology Academy Program, we really hired 7 students as Junior Software Engineers in 2 years. Better than this, we also gave references to other students in order to bring them into the field. Software Development Team Leader of Buying Funnel We were a self-organised, cross-functional team. I was leading 8 back-end, front-end and quality assurance engineers. We implemented all buying funnel projects together. Most importantly we successfully moved our legacy code which includes our login, register, card, address and payment pages (buying funnel in short) to a brand new architecture with my teammates. It was an architectural shift from monolith to microservices. It was pure PHP monolith and we started using Java, Spring Boot, PHP, Zend, ReactJs, NextJs, GraphQL, JQuery.
* I involved as Scrum Master in Return Center, My Page Messages, Register, Listing Service Transfer, Basket & Discounts and Product Recognition Projects with technical product backlog management for product owner, planning development processes with team members, initiating the projects with team leaders, organising meetings, preparing sprint bulletins and facilitating scrum events . I also prepared weekly project status reports for T&P Managers/Leads. I create a model for technical documentations and organised Project Standards Workshops in oder to share it. After this work, we have a collection of technical project documents in confluence which consists of over 30 technical project documents. * Leading all phases of Special Store (A new type of membership) and Product Subscription Projects. * Implementation of Mobile Express PHP Client in Payment Page and Buyer Cancellation Process in Return Center with PHP&ZF2. * Technical analysis of Listing Product Project, implementation of an REST API Client which is using by whole WEB module and Listing part of the WEB module with php, Zend Framework 2. I still have the responsibility of the maintanence of this api client and listing part of the WEB module. * 'How to develop with Zend Framework 2' internal training and preparing local development environments with ZendServer and vagrant for front-end developers to support a good starting point and informed them about back-end issues. * Technical analysis of Product Detail project which is about changing the technial background of product pages from pure php code to a service oriented architecture that includes Java, Spring services and php, zend framework 2 clients. Preparing meetings that provides simple and direct decision-making process and clear atmosphere for determinig todo works and its assignments. Development of some services in api with Java, Spring.
(Part Time) Web Project Management & Internet Programming 2