Utku
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Senior Product Engineer · Full Stack
Profile
Product Engineer with 10+ years of experience building software products from early ideas through to reliable, scalable systems. TypeScript and React are home turf. Strong product mindset, works closely with customers, ships what matters. Combines deep technical depth with collaborative instincts and a track record of mentoring engineers to deliver high-quality results.
Highlights
Led design and implementation of an AI/NLP automation system that doubled customers served while cutting support headcount by 50%
Designed Zalando's warehouse barcode printing system
Six-figure annual cost savings
Built and scaled a fintech product to 9-figure processing volume
20x revenue growth, multiple fund raises
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
- Developer and consultant for pre-seed stage startups
- The Gut Feeling: React Native + Next.js health-focused mobile app
- 0xOptimal: big data pipelines integrating multi-chain blockchain data for targeted advertising
Berlin
- Sole engineer on interim growth team; helped stand up the in-house growth function
- Implemented growth tech stack and ran A/B tests to optimize business performance
Berlin
- Participated in EF startup accelerator: customer discovery, market research, business development
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