Furkan is a Senior iOS Consultant/Engineer/Architect with 10+ years of industry experience; providing technical expertise for the iteration of custom-designed, service-driven applications - having delivered/launched 90+ apps to the App Store using both Objective-C and Swift. He has worked in various capacities for different local and global clients including Fortune 500 companies and Y Combinator startups.
Co-founded an education and consultancy platform that provides technology-based training for professionals.
Provided training feedback to management and assisted in the development of new training offerings as required by participants.
Assisted in the mentoring of new trainers and/or partners as Decoder scaled its training business.
Workup by İş Bank
Mentor
2017 - Present (7 years)
Istanbul, Turkey
Act as a steward for Workup - carrying out mentoring programs to startups on both the technical and product sides of projects.
Frequently offer direct, comprehensive support, coaching, and guidance to a load of assigned mentees.
Monitor the progress of assigned mentees; providing proactive support and outreach to them.
epcsht LLC
Co-Founder/Managing Partner
2016 - 2019 (3 years)
Turkey/United States
Managed the key activities and operations of epcsht's mobile division; worked on the iteration of a bank-grade insurance app in 2 months - with 150 different screens using MVVM and Reactive Functional programming.
Provided leadership and deep technical expertise for all aspects of solution design and application development for different business clients.
Drove and implemented a best practices approach to the continuous improvement of epcsht's products, processes, and tools.
Led Fofomo's mobile team - providing deep expertise and guidance for the development of the iOS app.
Defined mobile application architecture and implemented functionalities and features that met the requirements of the project.
Conducted quality assurance activities such as peer reviews on solutions to ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the application.
Taught the assigned class in accordance with learning objectives for Advanced iOS Application Development to senior students.
Selected and compiled tests, assignments and/or online discussion exercises that permited the measurement of performance relative to standardized learning objectives.
Reviewed textbooks and other courseware changes with the academic department and other faculty members in the University.
Offered functional expertise for the design, development, implementation, documentation, and support for new applications - winning some clients $10M in seed, serie A investments.
Diagnosed and resolved complex technical issues and provided support for all existing technology projects involving iOS.
Performed application analysis on different projects; deriving suggestions for application improvement, performance management, and technical debt management.
Worked as the sole iOS developer on the project. Architectured
and developed the application using MVVM pattern and
Reactive Functional Programming paradigm. The solution enables NN insurance users to manage insurance portfolios, change investment amounts and choices, manage fund distributions and create alternative investments. The app use charts/graphs and several types of data displays (from custom sliders to totally custom inputs). It was iterated with bank-grade security and passed several tests performed by security/penetration experts. It has two-factor and biometric authentication built into the solution.
T24 is the biggest online newspaper in Turkey. It has millions of
users visiting the platform (web and mobile apps). The iOS app serves hundreds of thousands of users every month with a crash rate of < 0.5%. Architectured and developed the iOS application from the ground up and assisted the backend team to architect the GraphQL endpoints of the solution. The application was built using MVVM patterns and reactive functional programming paradigm.
Worked on Cep Gumruk an app integrated into Evrim Customs - the biggest customs management software in Turkey. It allows Customs brokers and their clients to access the platform through the application. Users can follow tasks, declarations and easily post updates to the platform while on-the-go. Cep Gumruk also gives detailed reports and graphical analysis of foreign trade processes. Developed and architected the iOS app using MVVM patterns and Reactive Functional Programming paradigms, and supported the backend team in the implementation of RESTful APIs.
Fofomo helps users to easily discover live gigs in their cities. It has functionalities for searching, exploring and tracking all upcoming music events from a single platform. It was acquired by nerde.co in 2018. Developed the iOS app and contributed to the architecting of the REST APIs by the backend team.
