Director of Engineering at Zynga in London.
Engineering director with over twenty years in live games, fintech, and high-scale consumer platforms. The work is distributed systems: architecture, reliability, delivery, and the engineering standards around them. Much of it is highly concurrent and low-latency, built for transaction volume that has to stay fast.
Experience
Director of Engineering at Zynga, on a flagship live game used by millions of players. Director of Technology at Peak Games, across a portfolio of about 10 million daily players. Vice President of Technology at OBSS.
Visa, HSBC, the London Metal Exchange, Sainsbury's, Sony Europe. The portfolio is here.
Founder of Wisen.
Education & research
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, focused on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, with a thesis on sentiment analysis. B.Sc. in Computer Science.
Artificial intelligence, cognition, and human intelligence are a long-running interest, continuous with that postgraduate work.
Personal
I am the drummer of Minor Royals, a London-based band writing and recording original music. Our music is available on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming platforms.
I am also interested in art, philosophy, and psychology.
You can contact me at: erkut@erkut.me