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
I steer the overarching technology strategy, infrastructure governance, enterprise risk posture, and advanced innovation paradigm for the Pazarama digital commerce ecosystem.
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Executive Strategy & Governance: Define the mid-to-long-term corporate technology roadmap, aligning platform capabilities directly with core business growth metrics and board-level strategic mandates.
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Enterprise Architecture & Platforms: Oversee the scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency of our cross-functional platform infrastructure, ensuring zero-downtime operations for millions of active users.
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Information Security & Trust: Govern corporate-wide cybersecurity strategies, threat-mitigation frameworks, and compliance standards to safeguard critical transaction environments and user data.
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Advanced R&D & Agentic Systems: Champion the commercialization of next-generation technological research, pioneering the integration of advanced AI frameworks and autonomous agentic commerce systems into the enterprise ecosystem.
Oversaw the technological foundation and innovation roadmap of the organization across four critical pillars:
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Solutions Architecture: Led an elite team of senior solutions architects to bridge the gap between complex business requirements and the scalable technical design of the Pazarama ecosystem.
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Platform Engineering: Orchestrated a total migration from a vendor-locked Azure AppService architecture to a vendor-agnostic, cloud-native Kubernetes environment. Managed the resilience and efficiency of microservices and a high-throughput, event-driven architecture.
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Information Security: Directed all InfoSec operations, establishing a robust security posture that protected millions of customer transactions and internal enterprise infrastructure.
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Research & Development (R&D): Spearheaded the launch of a newly established department focused on integrating Generative AI and Machine Learning models into the core e-commerce experience.
- 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.
- 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
Led the Freight Network Team within Supply Chain Operations Technology during a period of unprecedented global logistics demand.
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Managed the integration of new freight network lanes across North America, coordinating high-stakes planning and testing with third-party carriers.
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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
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Supervised seven cross-functional teams comprising 30+ staff members (Engineers, BAs, Designers).
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Defined and improved the agile development lifecycle (SDLC) and technical procedures, aligning 100% of project delivery with department needs.
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Architected flagship systems used by millions: e-Visa (30M+ visas), KonsoloslukNET (Consular services for 5M citizens), and the national e-Passport biometric system.
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Installed a DevOps CI/CD infrastructure with 90+ automated pipelines and deployed a Big Data logging framework.
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Strategically refactored high-complexity legacy systems into distributed architectures without service interruption
- Full-lifecycle development (Analysis to Implementation) for secure inter-institutional integrations using the .NET stack.
Education
Middle East Technical University
- Research Focus: Agentic Commerce
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University
- Focused on software metrics, quality management, and architectural design.
Gazi University
Executive Value & Technical Proficiency
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, 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.