Serdar SIMSEK

Software Engineering Manager

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experience

  • Software Engineering Manager at Carbon Health
    Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    Engineering Manager at Carbon Health, leading the Carbon OS squad responsible for patient care and emergency care products used across Carbon’s clinical operations. Managing a team of 10 engineers working across a modern polyglot stack: React and React Native on the client side, and Kotlin/Spring, Scala, Java/gRPC, and Apollo GraphQL on the backend. Focused on building high-quality, reliable software that clinicians can trust in real patient care contexts.

  • FairMoney (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Engineering
      Feb 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 yr 6 mos

      • Headed a global engineering team managing seven squads to deliver comprehensive business banking solutions. • Spearheaded the development of end-to-end banking, lending, and payment solutions for the African market. • Utilized technologies such as Azure AKS, .NET Core, Golang, React, Vue, and Typescript to enhance user experiences.

    • Senior Software Engineering Manager
      Nov 2023 - Feb 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos

      • Managed multiple teams in the banking domain at FairMoney, overseeing the execution of the FlexiCredit, FairLock, Upfront Interest, Payment Widget, Topups products. • Collaborated closely with stakeholders to make architectural decisions, plan projects, conduct code reviews, and handle incident management. • Played a key role in the hiring process, ensuring the teams were staffed with top talent to drive success. • Led the teams to deliver high-quality software solutions that met the needs of the banking industry.

    • Software Engineering Manager
      Jan 2023 - Nov 2023 · 11 mos

      • Managed a diverse team of mobile, backend, and QA engineers in the banking domain at FairMoney. • Spearheaded the development and delivery of various end-to-end products, such as bank statements, payment widget, and banking topups. • Utilized tech stack including Go, Ruby on Rails for backend, and Android, iOS for frontend development. • Leveraged AWS EKS, Temporal, Kubernetes, Helm Charts, and GitHub for platform infrastructure.

  • Lead Software Engineering at EKOS.AI
    Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr

    • Led the development of various end-to-end products including onboarding flow, user profiles, messaging, notifications, and more at ekos.ai. • Built event and API driven data pipelines to enhance efficiency and scalability. • Designed and managed the hiring process for engineering teams, set growth plans, and actively participated in architectural decisions.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Siemens
    Mar 2020 - Feb 2022 · 2 yrs

    • Developed cloud native apps using Kubernetes on on-premise and AWS on cloud side. • Led the development of edge and cloud apps with microservices architecture. • Initiated PoC and organized KT sessions for international engineering team. • Worked on IOT - Digital Factories with cloud native solutions.

  • Senior Software Engineer at Care.com
    Dec 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    • Led the international engineering core team in developing and implementing Google Jobs and indexing API, resulting in improved search functionality and user experience. • Designed and developed a data pipeline for Amplitude, streamlining data processing and analysis for better decision-making. • Successfully migrated members from one business model to another in 11 locales, enhancing operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.