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Senior Product Engineer · Fullstack
Profile
Senior Product Engineer with 10 years of experience building software products from early ideas through to reliable, scalable systems. Enjoys working full stack with TypeScript and React.
Brings a strong product mindset, works closely with customers, and focuses on building what matters for them. Combines deep technical expertise with a focus on delivering quality results.
Seeking a role with close collaboration with customers and product teams and meaningful product impact.
Highlights
Led design and implementation of an AI/NLP automation system
Doubled customers served while freeing 50% of support capacity for other priorities
Designed Zalando's warehouse barcode printing system
Six-figure annual cost savings
Built a fintech product from its earliest stage to 9-figure processing volume as a founding engineer
20x revenue growth, multiple fund raises
Helped early-stage startups turn ambiguous ideas into well-scoped products
Led customer discovery, defined product scopes, and ran projects from concept through delivery
Work Experience
Berlin, London, Remote
- Led design for a payments system processing 9-figures and growing
- Built core B2B fintech architecture: wallets, payments, invoicing, automation pipelines
- Shipped agentic systems to automate day-to-day finance operations
- Onboarding, hiring, and mentoring across the engineering team
Remote
- Consulted on building MVPs, conducting customer discovery, and refining product scopes for several startups in ambiguous environments
- TaxFix: helped establish the internal growth stack and team; implemented product-led growth strategies to optimize mobile app flows
- Converta: Built a meeting recorder and transcriber bot to extract sales insights during Google Meet calls
- The Gut Feeling: used React Native and Next.js to design and develop the MVP for a health-focused mobile app
- 0xOptimal: developed big data pipelines integrating multiple blockchains for a targeted advertising platform
Berlin
- Created factory-floor simulation and optimization software and tested it with pilot customers
- Conducted customer discovery, market research, and business development to identify market opportunities and drive company growth
Remote
- Built customized e-commerce app with React Native
- Designed real-time analytics platform leveraging in-store camera technology
Berlin
- Designed high-performance microservices warehouse barcode printing system (six-figure annual savings)
- Contributed to warehouse management systems built for high reliability and scale
Berlin
- Backend engineer on in-house CRM system design and development
Istanbul
- Managed product-engineering communications for AI/Chatbot projects
- Built microservices for a banking application serving millions of users
Remote
- Managed Kubernetes clusters for multiple clients
- Shipped: blog directory, truck route planner, motorcycle tour reservations, college book sharing, non-profit donation system, chat party game, real-time fitness app, meeting recorder & transcriber
Education
Electrical & Electronics Engineering, B.Sc.
Boğaziçi University
Presentations
Applications of Chatbots & Artificial Intelligence
Turkey Artificial Intelligence Initiative
Skills