Work

LondonDirector of Engineering at Zynga, leading client engineering for one of Zynga’s flagship live mobile games. Responsible for technical architecture, scalability, performance, and sustainability of a live service platform used by millions of players worldwide. Leading multiple engineering teams and driving long-term technical strategy.

IstanbulDirector of Technology at Peak Games. Led engineering teams developing and operating large-scale live mobile games, across a portfolio of about 10 million daily players. Defined the technical vision, improved how the teams shipped, and kept performance and scalability in place for globally successful titles.

LondonFounder and Director of Engineering at Wisen, a technology consultancy. The engagements were architecture and platform engineering for organisations including Visa, HSBC, the London Metal Exchange, and Sainsbury’s, together with company vision and client delivery.

LondonPrincipal Software Engineer at JustLend, owning backend architecture for a peer-to-peer lending platform. Set the engineering practices and release process, kept technical quality next to delivery, and mentored the engineers building the system. Supported product delivery alongside that architecture and release process.

LondonDeveloped an SME digital banking platform integrating with financial providers. Also led backend engineering on the Kinetic platform: microservices, testing, CI/CD, and cloud delivery.

LondonBuilt backend microservices for highly secure payment platforms, including payment APIs, cloud infrastructure, and continuous delivery.

LondonContributed to an enterprise-scale migration to microservices, covering architecture, cloud infrastructure, and continuous delivery for a large retail platform.

London, Brussels, IstanbulDeveloped enterprise digital platforms and led engineering teams across London, Brussels, and Istanbul, including large-scale platform work on Java and distributed backends.

IstanbulVice President of Technology, leading technology strategy and engineering delivery across client programmes and medium-to-large teams. The scope covered architecture, delivery quality, and technical hiring.

Vienna, IstanbulDelivered core banking and enterprise software platforms for clients in Vienna and Istanbul, from architecture through to the financial systems those teams ran.

IstanbulBuilt high-scale betting platform infrastructure serving millions of users, the kind of live consumer system that has to stay up under real traffic.