Uğur Turan

Head Of Software Development @ Zero Density

Waalre, North Brabant, Netherlands

About

Make your software engineering department great again.

Experience

  • Head Of SW Development / Innovation Fellow at Zero Density
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    • Managing the small but extremely skilled multinational team across Turkey, Poland, and The Netherlands, forming solid communication and team spirit. • Conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing, and documenting next-generation products, focusing on lens calibration, tracking, noise filtering, using C++ and C# on Windows and Linux.

  • Head of Solutions in Emakina MENA at Emakina
    Feb 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Chief Solution Architect @ Emakina MEA. Working with clients for setting up new (or improving existing) software solutions which end with smoothly operating B2B and B2C e-commerce systems. • Internally shaping the delivery and sales organizations and processes, ensuring increased efficiency and scalability of services provided by the firm.

  • Chief Technology Officer / Industry X TR at Accenture
    Mar 2014 - Feb 2021 · 7 yrs

    • Chief Technical Architect of the Turkey organization, with teams working on a variety of software engineering projects, including public (Azure and AWS) and private cloud, web frontend and backend, IoT, mobile apps, and embedded software development. • CTO of the global Industry X.0 organization with 600+ people, beginning with its foundation, until its merge into the larger Accenture Digital. • Engineering Management: managing a group of ~50 engineers consisting of software architects, mobile app engineers and embedded software engineers. • Solution Architect: opportunity and proposal development by preparing responses to RFPs and other client requests, producing the technical solution, determining the best team structure, scope management, negotiation responses, project timeline, and proposal financials. • Project Management: management of cutting-edge-tech projects with challenging team structures, unclear scopes, and challenging timelines. • Public speaker: speaking on conferences and seminars, around the topics of Industrie 4.0, IoT, Accenture's business, and careers in software engineering.

  • evopro group (Hybrid)
    • Chief Software Architect, Nearshore and Onshore projects
      Jun 2011 - Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Chief software architect of Istanbul office of evoline, working on all aspects of SDLC and establishing best practices in software development, design, and development. • Designing the software development process of the company, tailored for nearshore development. • Architect and technical lead in dozens of projects, including WPF UI widget library product, multiple automated test tools, a PLC configurator product, and an OPC server product.

    • Software Architect, Manufacturing and Healthcare
      Feb 2008 - Jun 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      Working for Siemens Audiology Headquarters in Erlangen, Germany, with the Software Architect role in the flagship program for migration of all company applications from MFC/C++ to WPF/C# in 4 years. Focused on the UI libraries, enterprise architecture of the desktop applications and services, localization, 3D and real-time visualizations, performance improvements, test automation, continuous integration, the migration from Borland to Microsoft TFS, and other areas. As a consultant, I worked on other side projects for my company's clients. Examples: - Technical architect for a 1-year project on Siemens Industrial Automation department in Karlsruhe, Germany, migrating legacy applications to .NET and building test automation services for them. - Designed the e-fatura integration services for a Turkish billing services client. - Designed and implemented some automatic trading algorithms for a Turkish client who provided Trader services.

  • Software Architect, Financial Software Solutions at Servus
    May 2006 - Feb 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos

    Designed and developed financial software applications with MFC, C#, Web Services (SOAP/REST) and Microsoft SQL Server, under three categories: 1. ATM workflows: users withdrawing/depositing cash, paying bills, changing pin codes, hardware device management, user interface, etc, via MFC and WOSA / XFS. 2. Remote device management and software updates, monitoring, remote control of the ATMs. 3. The backend server that acts as the main controller between the ATM fleet and the core banking services.