Aydın Akyol
Front-End Team Lead at Octet Turkey
London, England, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolAydın Akyol is a Front-End Team Lead based in London with 10 years of experience building React and React Native applications and leading cross-functional frontend teams. He has progressed rapidly through senior and lead roles at startups and scale-ups—most recently heading the front-end team at Octet Turkey—where he focuses on shipping user-centric, maintainable UI at pace. Aydın blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, mentoring mobile and web squads and shaping front-end architecture across multiple projects. Outside code he’s a drummer, gamer, and petrolhead, which feeds a practical, iterative approach to problem solving and a knack for maintaining team rhythm under pressure. He’s driven by creating software that improves people’s lives and continually pushes himself to learn new tools and patterns.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at İstanbul Aydin UniversityDatabase programming department, Database programming department at Profilo Anadolu Teknik Lisesi
Turkish, İngilizce
Github Skills (13)
spotify9
linux8
command-line-tool8
command-line7
windows7
macos7
golang7
cli6
racing3
panda3d3
simulation3
audio2
real-time-strategy1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aakyol/weasley-messenger
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
Your location based message helper
Contributions:42 PRs, 67 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year
locationmessagelocation-based
cemsterr/localtestrepo
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pythonsending
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