Hi, I'm Mehmet! 🖖🏻

Senior Engineering Lead with 15+ years of experience building scalable platforms across BNPL, payments, e-commerce, and SaaS accounting. Led distributed teams in Istanbul, Bangkok, and Dubai to deliver secure, high-availability systems serving millions of users— including Gojek PayLater (3M+ daily transactions, 99.99% uptime) and a full-stack financial platform built in 42 days.

Hands-on technical leader proficient in Go, TypeScript, and event-driven microservices, with deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL). Advocates for engineering excellence through TDD, pair programming, and end-to-end system ownership, ensuring speed, scalability, and compliance in regulated domains.

Notable Projects

• Kinematiks: Designed and deployed autonomous crypto market-making bots, enhancing trading efficiency across exchanges.
• Gojek: Managed multiple engineering teams, focusing on products like buy-now-pay-later and cash loans, impacting millions.
• Polira: Co-developed a loyalty point exchange platform within 42 days.
• Tology: Built a RAG chatbot platform enabling users to create, share, and customize chatbots.
• iOS Apps: Created generative AI-powered and finance-centric apps from ideation to deployment.