About

I am a multidisciplinary technology leader with over 15 years of experience bridging the gap between deep engineering and business value. With a foundation in Economics and dual Master of Science degrees in Software Management and Information Systems (both summa cum laude), I specialize in leading high-scale digital transformations and building resilient, vendor-agnostic architectures.

My career spans mission-critical government infrastructure to global e-commerce scaling. I am currently a PhD candidate at Middle East Technical University, researching Agentic Commerce—designing the future of autonomous, AI-driven marketplace ecosystems.

Experience

Pazarama

Senior Director, Information Technology and R&D

May 2024 – Present

I oversee the technological foundation and innovation roadmap of the organization:

Solutions Architecture: Lead an elite team of senior solutions architects to bridge the gap between complex business requirements and the scalable technical design of the Pazarama ecosystem.
Platform Engineering: Orchestrated a total migration from a vendor-locked Azure AppService architecture to a vendor-agnostic, cloud-native Kubernetes environment. I manage the resilience and efficiency of 100+ microservices and a high-throughput event-driven architecture.
Information Security: Oversee all InfoSec operations, ensuring a robust security posture that protects millions of customer transactions and internal infrastructure.
R&D: Spearheading a newly established department focused on integrating Generative AI and Machine Learning into the e-commerce experience.

Director, Solutions Architecture

Jan 2023 – May 2024

Orchestrated the architectural roadmap for Pazarama’s expansion, establishing the governance models and technical standards required to scale the platform into a leading regional e-commerce ecosystem.

Senior Solutions Architect

Mar 2022 – Jan 2023

Architected the core marketplace platform from inception, designing the initial high-throughput microservices foundation and event-driven integration layer to ensure high-availability and distributed data consistency.

Wayfair

Senior Engineering Manager

Oct 2021 – Mar 2022

Led the Freight Network Team within Supply Chain Operations Technology during a period of unprecedented global logistics demand.

Managed the integration of new freight network lanes across North America, coordinating high-stakes planning and testing with third-party carriers.
Navigated a massive organizational shift from an on-premise PHP monolith to a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey

Software Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Oct 2021

Agile Leadership: Supervised seven cross-functional teams comprising 30+ staff members (Engineers, BAs, Designers).
Talent Acquisition: Personally managed recruiting and technical screening for the department, building high-performing, self-organizing teams.
Process Modernization: Defined and improved the agile development lifecycle (SDLC) and technical procedures, aligning 100% of project delivery with department needs.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Jun 2020

National Scale Impact: Architected flagship systems used by millions: e-Visa (30M+ visas), KonsoloslukNET (Consular services for 5M citizens), and the national e-Passport biometric system.
Infrastructure at Scale: Installed a DevOps CI/CD infrastructure with 90+ automated pipelines and deployed a Big Data logging framework.
Refactoring: Strategically refactored 5 high-complexity legacy systems into distributed architectures without service interruption

.NET Developer

Nov 2007 – Jun 2012

Full-lifecycle development (Analysis to Implementation) for secure inter-institutional integrations using the .NET stack.

Education

Middle East Technical University

Sep 2023

Doctor of Philosophy (Candidate), Information Systems, CGPA:3.86

Research Focus: Agentic Commerce

Middle East Technical University

Sep 2019 - Jun 2023

Master of Science, Information Systems, CGPA:4.00

Thesis: A Deep Neural Network Based Product Metadata Validation Approach for Online Marketplaces.

Middle East Technical University

Feb 2018 – Jun 2019

Master of Science, Software Management, CGPA:4.00

Focused on software metrics, quality management, and architectural design.

Gazi University

Sep 2001 – Sep 2007

Bachelor’s Degree, Economics,

Executive Core Competencies

Strategic Leadership: Multi-project management, budgeting, recruiting, and vendor negotiations.
Multidisciplinary Strategy: Leveraging an Economics background to align engineering roadmaps with business value and ROI.
Public & Private Sector Versatility: Proven success navigating the complexities of mission-critical government infrastructure and the high-velocity demands of global e-commerce.
Legacy-to-Modern Transformation: Expert at leading organizations through the transition from legacy monoliths and vendor-locked systems to vendor-agnostic, cloud-native architectures.
Cloud-Native Strategy: Kubernetes (AKS/GCP), microservices orchestration, and high-scale distributed systems to prevent provider lock-in.
Applied AI & Research: Bridging the gap between PhD-level research (PyTorch, Deep Learning) and production-ready Agentic Commerce.
Multidisciplinary Perspective: Utilizing an Economics background for data-driven decision-making and market analysis.

Technical Expertise

Ecosystem: Kubernetes (AKS, GKE, RKE2), Azure, Google Cloud, AWS, Docker.
Architecture: Microservices, Event-Driven Design, DevOps Culture, Security Engineering, Refactoring.
Data & AI: Kafka/EventHubs, Redis, ELK Stack, MongoDB, Prometheus, Grafana, PyTorch, Spark, Power BI. Currently exploring: n8n, LangChain, RAG, Vector Databases.
Languages: C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell. Currently exploring: Rust, Go.