Summary
Barış Yilmaz is a seasoned mobile engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience, currently serving as CEO and Co‑Founder of Aden Games in Istanbul. He brings deep hands‑on expertise in native iOS development (Objective‑C/Swift), real‑time media processing, AR, and offline-first mobile architectures, having led teams and R&D efforts across gaming, telecom, and digital signage. His career spans senior roles at Turkcell Technology and multiple product-driven startups where he combined technical mentorship with full product lifecycle ownership, from prototyping to deployment. Known for integrating complex third‑party systems—FFMPEG, OpenSSL, Tesseract, Vuforia—and optimizing performance and concurrency, he blends low‑level systems knowledge with product intuition. As a founder with an academic background in computer engineering and ongoing master's studies in CS, he uniquely bridges research curiosity and pragmatic startup execution.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Turkish, English