Barış Özçelik
Technical Tribe Lead at Xapo Bank
Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolBarış Özçelik is a Technical Tribe Lead with a decade of experience designing and shipping scalable distributed systems across fintech, mortgage tech, and IoT domains. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Python, AWS, CI/CD and DevOps with proven leadership—mentoring teams, leading cross-border engineering efforts, and driving architecture at companies like Xapo Bank and Staircase. At Staircase he accelerated partner onboarding by integrating 75 data partners in a year and pioneered an OpenAI-driven autopilot for loan origination that cut application time from days to under 15 minutes. Earlier work includes building HomeWhiz, an IoT platform for major appliance brands, and migrating monoliths to IaC-driven cloud infrastructures. With an academic background in cognitive science and computer engineering from METU, he brings a systems-thinking lens to product and AI integrations. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who thrives on solving complex integrations across multi-timezone, multicultural teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Cognitive Science, Master's degree Cognitive Science at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, İngilizce
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
golang10
aws-sdk9
trend9
interpreter9
programming-language9
go9
sdk8
aws8
odin7
compiler7
xcode6
ios6
uitableview6
swift6
localization6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
barisozcelik/slate
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
apiopenapimarkdown
barisozcelik/DynaDrawPC
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 push in 4 months
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