Alper Hankendi
Head Of Technology at Hepsiburada (NASDAQ: HEPS)
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAlper Hankendi is a technology executive and hands-on engineer with 25+ years of experience, currently leading engineering strategy as Head of Technology at Hepsiburada. He has progressed through senior leadership roles there—Director of Engineering and Senior Software Development Manager—driving large-scale e-commerce platforms and operational resilience. Earlier roles include building payment and POS systems at İnnova and VeriFone, where he designed high-availability transactional architectures and multi-country payment solutions. Known as a pragmatic "ninja" coder on GitHub, he blends deep systems-level expertise (C++, .NET, embedded) with product-focused delivery. Based in Istanbul, he excels at scaling teams and systems, turning complex financial and retail requirements into reliable, production-grade services. Colleagues describe him as a strategic operator who still enjoys getting into the code when the architecture matters.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Uludag University
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (102)
echo10
websocket10
go-web-framework10
middleware10
letsencrypt10
micro-framework10
go10
ssl10
web-framework10
identityserver9
asp-net-core9
asp-net-core-identity9
krakend9
monitoring8
golang8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alperhankendi/katacoda-scenarios
Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
alperhankendi/PageGuideMvc
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 month
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