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COMPUTER ENGINEERING

B.Sc., Beykent University

DEGREE

B.SC.

YEARS

2014-2019

MISSION LOG

• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at Beykent University, Istanbul.

BIODESIGN CENTER

Software Development Intern, Acıbadem University

ROLE

INTERN

TIME

JUN-AUG 2019

MISSION LOG

• Built the front end of the center's public website with HTML5, CSS3 and vanilla JavaScript, turning design mockups into responsive, cross-browser pages.

POWER-UPS

• HTML5
• CSS3
• JavaScript

M.SC. COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Information Technology, Yıldız Technical University

DEGREE

M.SC.

YEARS

2021-2022

MISSION LOG

• Coursework: machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, computer graphics, computer organization, assembly, software engineering and more.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Insider, dedicated Singapore Airlines team

SINGAPORE AIRLINES

20M+ FLIERS / YEAR

DAILY USERS

UP TO 500K

FLAGSHIP PAGE LOAD

MORE THAN HALVED

MISSION LOG

• Shipped personalization campaigns, on-site experiences and internal tools in JavaScript, Go and PHP for the dedicated Singapore Airlines team, some used by up to half a million people a day.
• Built backend microservices in PHP (Laravel) and Go on MySQL and Redis, exposing REST APIs and cron jobs that served hundreds of thousands of users with real-time personalization and A/B tests.
• Led incident response for business-critical issues on top-tier accounts, using Datadog to trace logs and restore service within tight SLAs.
• Created internal developer tools adopted across engineering, including a VS Code extension that automates code review and several Chrome extensions.

POWER-UPS

• JavaScript
• Go
• PHP
• Laravel
• MySQL
• Redis
• Datadog

TECHNICAL ADVISOR

Promoted at Insider, alongside development

CUSTOMER MEETINGS

100+

ENTERPRISE ACCOUNTS

HUNDREDS

ADVISORS TRAINED

3

MISSION LOG

• Led 100+ customer meetings across hundreds of enterprise accounts, solving architecture questions and urgent production cases alongside solution architects and customer success managers.
• Contributed to managing the advisory team through reporting and performance reviews, mentored dozens of developers, and trained three of them into the technical advisor role.

AWS GAME DAY

Insider One and Amazon Web Services

RANK

1ST PLACE

TEAM

4 ENGINEERS

MISSION LOG

• First place with a 4-engineer team, solving real cloud architecture and incident scenarios under time pressure.

BANNER MANAGEMENT

A product I co-founded at Insider

FOUNDING TEAM

3 ENGINEERS

ARCHITECTURE

MICRO-FE + BE

MISSION LOG

• Co-founded a 3-engineer team to launch Banner Management on a micro-frontend and micro-backend architecture.
• Built its full delivery stack from scratch: Kubernetes on AWS EKS, Helm, Terraform, Docker and CI/CD.

POWER-UPS

• Kubernetes
• AWS EKS
• Helm
• Terraform
• Docker
• CI/CD

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Software Engineer at Insider

ROLE

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

SINCE

AUG 2026

PLATFORM

2,000+ BRANDS

MISSION LOG

• Build Design Agent, an AI feature that generates pop-up, gamification and inline campaign designs from natural-language prompts, cutting build time from hours to minutes.
• Own Banner Management, having co-founded and launched it, and lead its maintenance and evolution in production across Insider’s customer base.
• Keep all of the team’s owned products reliable in production, shipping new features and handling deployments, upgrades and incidents.