Summary
Caner Basaran is a fractional CTO and tech advisor with 14+ years of software engineering and architecture experience helping startups and enterprises turn product vision into scalable systems. He has led enterprise architecture and event-driven transformations, mentored 120+ engineers, and delivered API-driven revenue accelerations in travel and ads integrations. Comfortable moving between hands-on engineering and executive strategy, he has repeatedly built resilient microservices, real-time backends and IoT network servers across cloud-native stacks. Known for pragmatic technical decisions, he also identifies non-obvious risks—such as data privacy vulnerabilities—and architects mitigations early in the lifecycle. Based in Izmir, Turkey, he combines founding-stage grit with enterprise governance, often serving multiple ventures as a part-time CTO to accelerate delivery without ballooning costs. He is an active career mentor and executive advisor who prioritizes team growth alongside measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Mersin Üniversitesi / Mersin University