Hizir is an experienced software engineer with 10+ years working in various environments, from fast-paced start-ups to corporations, including as a tech leader of data engineering and architecture in Coca-Cola Icecek, leading a team of 19 people. He specializes in Java, having hands-on experience with full-cycle software development, Agile methodologies, hiring and creating teams. He had the chance to design his own flows for the development and design of software, also assessing and hiring 30+ people in the last 3 years.
Worked on architecting and developing Leaf, an application with the goal to improve communication processes in the gastronomy sector. Developed various parts of the system, including the analytics and reporting modules, contributing to the core of the project.
Developed and designed Bookish.com, designed to be a competitor for amazon.com, as a book catalogue site. It was funded by the biggest publishers in the US.
Led the web and back-end team, also actively developing using Scala and other technologies.
Founded in 2008, the ComeOn Group has had a fantastic journey growing from a small start-up to a big player in online gaming. Powered by a lean but highly skilled workforce the ComeOn Group is practicing a multi-brand strategy to be able to create better user experiences through meaningful brands. The software ecosystem is very wide including payment, fraud detection, game integrations, etc. I was responsible for designing and implementing new systems with bleeding-edge technologies and porting the legacy codebase to a new era. Made the developer hirings for the Istanbul office as well.
The Leaf Systems GmbH was founded in June 2013 with a goal to improve communication processes in the gastronomy sector. The system implemented innovation using mobile devices and tablet computers to dispatch meal and beverage orders, which accelerates processes and transactions and shortens communication paths. My team was developing various parts of the system. Analytics and reporting are one part. We also developed the Web UI for analytics and reports. The team also had Android developers and contributed to the core of the project.
SocialWire wants advertisers to hyper-optimize their Facebook ads experience. With SocialWire, brands can get users to organically share a story on Facebook’s Open Graph, and then use Facebook Sponsored Stories to promote that story to its most valuable potential customers. I worked as a Java developer on this project. We were building a recommendation engine for e-commerce, using Hadoop map-reduce and similar technologies (no spark and similar were around at that time). The project was funded $2M after our successful implementation.
