Serhat Aysu

Director of Engineering

Chicago, Illinois, United States

About

Accomplished Information Technology Professional with extensive directing, operational, networking, software analysis, design and development experience. Excellent supervising, team building, architecting, trouble shooting, problem solving and performance improvement skills. Special interest in Internet and mobile applications, cloud technologies, security, Windows, iOS, .NET, SOA, IOT, networking, software architecture, parallel processing, data science, ASP.Net, IIS, C/C++/C#, functional programming and new technologies. BS and MS in Computer Engineering.

Experience

  • Director Of Engineering at Getir
    Nov 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Getir is leading ultra fast delivery company in US & Europe. • Lead the intra tribe (employee, tools, automation, business administration & monitoring squads). • Lead the core engineering tribe (geocoding, configuartion and communication squads). • Lead the courier tribe.

  • Back-end Team Manager at STA Group
    Jan 2020 - Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

    • Lead the sprint team for credit union auto loans software development • Act as a scrum master for the group • Development using C#, .Net Core, Node.js, SQL Server, Azure • Deployment using Azure DevOps CI/CD

  • CTO at Nevotek
    Jul 2014 - Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 10 mos

    • Directed the development of highly scalable cloud based hospitality web site that enables guests to choose their own rooms, upgrades and services. The system interfaces with back-end hotel PMS(Opera). • Directed data science, analysis and prediction projects. • Directed the cloud based energy monitoring, optimization and IOT projects. • Consultant to Cisco Wi-Fi project including capacity planning, scaling of systems and analysis of performance issues. • Prepared systems for data mining, big data and machine learning. • Directed Mobile development including Cordova, React Native.

  • Senior Architect at Vestek Research & Development Corp / Vestel Group
    Oct 2011 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Lead Smart TV Portal project serving half a million connected TV’s around the world. • Designed server side of Smart Home Project forecast to integrate millions of appliances. • Consultant to Hotel TV project sold to many hotels in Turkey & Europe. • Training and mentoring of junior staff. • Prepared systems for reporting of analytics. • Coordinated installation and trouble shooting of networks and systems. • Capacity planning, scaling of systems and analysis of performance issues. • Coordinated procurement with external vendors and service providers. • Coordinated relations with Smart TV Alliance standards working group.

  • IT Consultant at Merrill Lynch GWM / Bank of America
    Sep 2010 - Sep 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Engineering lead in various brokerage and banking projects. • Designed and implemented software inventory tracking. • Coordinated installation and trouble shooting of online financial applications on Windows & IIS. • Analyzed and solved software problems and performance issues. • Maintained infrastructure products