Summary
Adnan Korkmaz is a seasoned software leader and two-time founder with over 20 years of experience building high-throughput, revenue-driving platforms and scaling engineering teams from first hire to 25+. Currently Head of Software Development at Smart In Media in Munich, he leads four distributed teams delivering regulated medical-imaging products with ISO 27001 and IVDR compliance while driving AI integrations and significant performance gains. He combines hands-on architecture and optimization (5x core component speedups) with people-first hiring and KPI-driven roadmaps, having previously led DevOps and product functions for €30M+ businesses. Adnan’s background spans AdTech recommendation engines, large-scale recommender systems on petabyte datasets, and modernizing CI/CD across 50+ projects—an unusual mix of low-level performance tuning and strategic compliance. He thrives in messy, high-stakes environments and treats team-building with the same rigor as system design.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Degree, Business Administration, Masters Degree, Business Administration at Maltepe University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, German, Turkish