Arif Çakıroğlu
Head Of Design at HotelRunner
İzmir, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolArif Çakıroğlu is a design leader and front-end practitioner with 11 years of experience shaping user-centered digital products from İzmir. As Head of Design at HotelRunner he leads cross-functional teams to deliver global-scale hospitality and travel solutions, having risen through roles from Lead UX/UI to founding a boutique studio, ALAFORA. He blends visual craft with engineering fluency—frequently shipping front-end implementations himself—which helps align design with business outcomes and accelerate delivery. Known for simplifying complex product problems, he fosters collaboration across design, engineering, and product to turn strategic goals into usable interfaces. His background in art history and early work in game UI and character modeling give him a distinct visual sensibility and systems-thinking approach. Open to creative partnerships, he balances hands-on execution with leadership that scales design impact.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
edebiyat fakultesi, art history, edebiyat fakultesi, art history at Anadolu Universityedebiyat fakültesi, art history, edebiyat fakültesi, art history at yunus emre anadolu lisesi
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Github Skills (68)
phonegap10
ui-components10
windows10
mongoose10
javascript10
openlibrary10
html10
js10
electron10
v810
typescript10
cross-platform10
macos10
nodejs10
css10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nodeschool/istanbul
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
:school::tulip: NodeSchool chapter for Istanbul, TR
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 4 months
nodeschoolexpressjsjavascriptexpresschapter
neutronkit/neutron
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:90 commits, 1 PR, 105 pushes in 5 months
linux-windowselectron-appswindowselectronlinux
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