Summary
Ali Salihoğlu is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with nine years of experience building serverless, object-oriented platforms that prioritize developer productivity and cost-efficiency. He led Retter.io’s Core Team and re-architected its backend, cutting latency by 60% and operational costs by 80%, and his platform powered enterprise e-commerce and loyalty projects for clients like Starbucks, A101, Unilever and RBS reaching millions of users. Comfortable making product-level tradeoffs, he has hands-on experience implementing scalable services (billing, promotions, cart, datalake) and accelerating domain workflows from his AVL work on CRETA. Based in the Netherlands and grounded in a Computer Engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University, he pairs strong engineering depth with a continuous-learning mindset evidenced by ML and deep learning certifications. A practical innovator who thrives on collaborative problem-solving, he’s also a certified paragliding pilot—an unusual hobby that reflects his appetite for calculated risk and exploration.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Çanakkale Fen Lisesi
Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
İngilizce, Turkish, Spanish