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Experience

The companies I've worked at, my roles and what I did there.

Resume

PDF · 3 pages · Oct 2026

Turkish version

  1. ViraStack

    – Present

    Founder · 1 year · Remote

    • Founded ViraStack, an open-source ecosystem that brings long-term quality and architectural order to frontend projects.
    • The ecosystem includes a free learning platform, a one-command starter for production-ready projects, an architecture kit for AI agents and accessible React form packages.
    • I own the full lifecycle end to end: product decisions, development, documentation and npm releases.

    React · Next.js · TypeScript · TanStack Query · Tailwind CSS

  2. Machinarium

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    Frontend Team Lead · 4 months · Istanbul · Remote

    • Led a 10-person frontend team, owning the technical direction of 5+ projects, including 2 e-commerce sites and PIM, CMS and OMS panels.
    • Brought structures rebuilt separately across projects into a shared component and module architecture, cutting feature and bug-fix turnaround by 2–3x.
    • Established AI rules and coding standards, bringing code consistency across the team.
    • Set up an AI-assisted Figma-to-code workflow that sped up turning designs into code.

    React · Next.js · TypeScript · TanStack Query · Tailwind CSS

  3. Alışgidiş · a Fibabanka company

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    Frontend Team Lead · 1 year 4 months · Istanbul · Remote

    • Built the frontend team and architecture of alisgidis.com, Fibabanka's e-commerce venture, from scratch, and led its 5-person frontend team.
    • Raised Lighthouse scores to 90+ through Core Web Vitals improvements, improving site speed and SEO.
    • Built a modular UI library with dark and light themes using Atomic Design, increasing frontend development speed by 25%.
    • Introduced unit testing with Vitest and end-to-end testing with Playwright into the development process.

    React · Next.js · TypeScript · TanStack Query · Tailwind CSS

  4. Gordion

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    Senior Frontend Engineer · 2 years 2 months · Istanbul · Remote

    • Built scalable frontend architectures for hotel, flight and cultural tour booking platforms.
    • Developed a corporate UI kit and design system, bringing consistency across teams.
    • Took on technical leadership of a 6-person frontend team without a formal title and mentored several developers.

    React · Next.js · GraphQL · Styled Components · Tailwind CSS

  5. HangiKredi

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    Frontend Developer · 1 year 5 months · Istanbul · Remote

    • Developed every page of hangikredi.com and raised Lighthouse scores to top levels through performance work.
    • Wrote reusable JavaScript libraries to reduce code duplication.

    HTML · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery · Bootstrap

Before that

  1. Kodluyoruz

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    Instructor · Taught Frontend 101 to 30 students.

  2. Akinon

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    Frontend Developer · Built modular components for e-commerce sites such as Vakko and A101.

  3. Turkcell

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    Frontend Developer · Fixed critical interface bugs in production.

  4. Ziraat Teknoloji

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    Frontend Developer · Built a corporate admin panel. My first job.