Istanbul, Türkiye
With over two decades in the tech and e-commerce sectors, I've held strategic leadership roles, most notably as the Chief Technology Officer at Hepsiburada and Yandex.Market. My expertise encompasses IT infrastructure, DS&ML capabilities, and e-commerce service integration. Having managed teams of up to 1000 professionals, I've consistently aligned technology strategy with business objectives, championed innovation, and spearheaded operational procedures to drive growth and efficiency.
Leading a great teams for Engineering, Data, Infrastructure, Security, Product and UX for the Hepsiburada - leading Turkish e-commerce marketplace with a total headcount team size 900+ ppl. The responsibilities are: - Planning and managing IT budget - Building technology strategy around infrustracture stability, resilience, data accessibility, efficiency and time2market - Creating product strategy and managing quarterly roadmap aligning with company strategy and priorities - Focusing on DS&ML capabilities to build up competitive advantages in search, recommendations, personalization and advertisement - Building and sustaining strong technology team with right communication and processes
Responsible for the whole IT team of Yandex.Market Group [appx. 1000 people] 2019 - 2021 • United Yandex.Market Marketplace and price comparison service - over 6 mln. DAU in result, 150K transactions/day • Built own logistics platform - last mile systems (courier platform, parcel automat systems, pick-up point automatization), sorting center applications, SCM system. 2018 - 2019 • Yandex.Market price comparison service - over 3 mln. DAU • Beru.ru marketplace - over 500k DAU • Bringly.ru - crossborder marketplace, Superchek - application for comparison for offline shopping • Product content system and team for Yandex.Market Group - about 90 people inhouse and 300 parttime • Implemented projects for sales from own warehouses. Deployed and integrated ERP (Microsoft Axapta) and WMS (Infor WMS). • Built team and platform for parallel development of several e-commerce services. april 2016 — 2017 Responsible for the whole IT team of Yandex.Market [appx. 350 people] • Software engineers - fronted, backend, mobile developers • Product development - project and product managers. • Software reliability team - devops • Quality team - functional testers and automation testing team • Implemented transition into new business model of service (Cost per action). Growth of CPA orders 10x times. • Built mobile team with transition of development of mobile applications from outsource into own team. Building team from zero of mobile developers to 3 groups of 5 developers (each platform - iOS, Android, mobile web). Synchronizing functionality between desktop and mobile platforms. • Implemented crossborder sales project (with China and Europe partners) including tracking. • Launched line of delivery-connected projects, including Yandex.Delivery and integration with Russian Post
Leading team developing service Yandex.Market (http://market.yandex.ru) and services similar http://uslugi.yandex.ru, http://gorod.yandex.ru/, http://master.yandex.ru, https:// delivery.yandex.ru. • Participation and tutoring architecture development in projects. • Participation in project development at the different stages. • Setting up development process. • Cooperation with management team, ops. Solving problems, procedure formulation. • Solving technical, management and human problems. • Controlling engineers hiring process. Team has grown from 25 (2012) to 160 (2015) • From 2015 leading team of test engineers (functional and auto-tests). Up to 30 quality engineers. • Performance review of team. Participated in initiation of performance review process and creation of connected procedures (bonus procedure). • Initiated creation of resource and project planning procedure, including year and quarter plans. • Responsible for insfrastructure projects and indicators (from 2014). Built a team up to 6 managers, that lead different areas of service infrastructure (service response, index preparation and delivery, content system, etc) • Creation of «service health» - SLA for all important components and systems, monitoring system for failures.
Team lead of a group developing billing system and client management system of Yandex.Market.
Development of billing system and client web interface for Yandex.Market (http:// market.yandex.ru/) system.
Application development in Java using technologies J2SE, J2EE. Participation in configuration management of java projects. Integration of java projects with other systems written in other languages using web services.