Summary
Cem Topkaya is a seasoned software leader with 11+ years of experience architecting and delivering cloud-native, telecom and enterprise systems, currently serving as Director of R&D, DSP at Telenity. He combines deep hands-on engineering (C/C++, Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript and many legacy languages) with operational expertise in containerization, Kubernetes, OpenStack and CI/CD automation to ship VNFs/CNFs and web applications across private and public clouds. Cem has led multi-disciplinary teams of 20+ engineers, built centralized build/test/packaging infrastructures, and reworked C++ build systems to produce HELM charts and container images for telecom core components. He emphasizes mentoring, cross-team communication with product owners, and pragmatic architecture choices informed by decades of language and tooling breadth. An aerospace-educated engineer with advanced studies in geomatics and computer science, he brings a systems-thinking perspective that surfaces non-obvious improvements in build and deployment pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Geomatics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Geomatics Engineering at İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Phd, Computer Science, Phd, Computer Science at International University of Sarajevo
Master's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Master's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Haliç Üniversitesi
İngilizce, German, Russian