Summary
Aykut Akin is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience specializing in data transformation and platform engineering, currently leading Data Transformation at Zalando in Berlin. He progressed through senior and core platform engineering roles to focus on tooling, automation, and infrastructure stability that reduce lead time for data teams. Earlier in his career he consulted on BI and data warehouse projects for major Turkish enterprises and built ETL, ODS and near-real-time BI integrations, giving him deep practical expertise in analytics pipelines. He pairs hands-on development fluency (Java, SQL, PL/SQL, ETL patterns) with people leadership and an MBA, enabling him to translate business needs into reliable, scalable data platforms. Beyond work, he maintains a technology blog and GitHub presence, reflecting a continuous curiosity for new technologies and reproducible engineering practices.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3,40, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3,40 at Istanbul Technical University
Science and Math, 88,01, Science and Math, 88,01 at Pertevniyal Anatolian High School
Turkish, İngilizce, French, German