Summary
Çağrı Özer is an Engineering Manager at Booking.com with 11 years of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience across e-commerce, media and logistics companies. He progressed from full-stack and backend roles to team lead and engineering manager positions, driving high-traffic projects such as Hürriyet’s election microsite and migration efforts to .NET Core. Known as a “software craftsman in perpetual training,” he blends rigorous engineering practices (unit testing, SOLID, CI) with mentoring, code reviews and developer education. Çağrı has a track record of improving code quality and reliability—evidenced by achieving 70% test coverage on mission-critical projects—and still contributes technical libraries used in production. Based in the Netherlands, he brings a pragmatic, workshop-oriented leadership style that emphasizes measurable engineering outcomes and developer growth.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Geophysical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geophysical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English