Cihan Bahadir is a Software Engineering Manager in Istanbul with 10 years of experience building and shipping customer-focused products at Siemens, progressing from senior engineer to product owner and now leading engineering teams. He blends hands-on backend and QA skills—demonstrated by meaningful contributions to the widely used Kiwi TCMS open-source project—with product ownership experience that keeps technical work tightly aligned to customer pain points. Comfortable toggling between day-time PO and night-time developer, he brings practical expertise in Python/Django, test automation, and bug-tracker integrations across Azure DevOps and Bitbucket. Cihan has a track record of improving test coverage and resolving complex integration issues, making him as valuable in code reviews as in roadmap discussions. Based in Istanbul, he pairs a systems-oriented engineering mindset with a product-first approach to maximize value delivery. An understated strength is his history of moving between roles (engineer, tester, PO, manager), which gives him empathy for cross-functional teams and an uncommon ability to translate customer needs into reliable implementations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
Highschool Diplom, Highschool Diplom at Başkent Private Scientific Highschool
open source test management system with over 2 million downloads!
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:27 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cihan primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Kiwi TCMS project, with a strong emphasis on Python and Django. Their work includes resolving issues related to formatting errors, bug status changes, and email notifications. They demonstrated skills in test automation by adding and modifying tests to improve code coverage, particularly focusing on form validation and bug tracker integrations. The user also displayed familiarity with Azure DevOps and BitBucket, as they were involved in bug tracker integration.
Embedded OPC UA Server on ESP32 based on open62541 stack
Contributions:171 commits, 39 PRs, 201 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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Cihan Bahadir - Software Engineering Manager at Siemens