Frontend engineer by day. After hours I ship apps.
18 years of building for the web, currently working as a Frontend Engineer at Booking.com in Amsterdam. Evenings go to small, private apps I wanted but couldn't find.
4 apps on the App Store, Google Play and the web
Apps
Four apps, built after hours.
Experience
Day job, since 2008.
Frontend for most of it, Java before that. Istanbul for the first decade, Amsterdam since 2019.
Full resume-
2022 – now
Frontend Developer at Booking.com
Frontend Engineer on a full-stack team, building the internal tool used to create and manage marketing campaigns across the Booking.com site and apps. TypeScript, Next.js, React.
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2021 – 2022
Frontend Engineer at SurveyMonkey
Product features on a large React and TypeScript single-page app, with a GraphQL schema on Apollo and data visualisation in Highcharts.
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2019 – 2021
Frontend Engineer at Bestseller
A new full-stack e-commerce platform for the Bestseller brands, multi-language and multi-region, built with React, Next.js and GraphQL.
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2016 – 2019
Senior Software Developer at Turkcell
Built the TV+ website from scratch and the apps for web, smart TVs and set-top boxes, while owning the product backlog as technical product manager.
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2008 – 2016
Earlier: Java and set-top-box work at Netas, Huawei, Pilot Software.
About
Football first, code a close second.
I've supported Beşiktaş longer than I've been a developer. I cycle whenever Amsterdam's weather allows, take photos of things that seem ordinary until they're not, and spend a lot of time working out where AI tools actually help.
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