Ekin Öcalan is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Berlin with nine years of professional experience building scalable web platforms and distributed services for high-traffic businesses. He co-founded and exited a startup, helped scale Delivery Hero’s QCommerce core services across 30+ countries, and solved complex platform problems at Shopify and HubSpot while mentoring engineers and running stability duties. A lifelong web enthusiast who started coding at 11 and contributed to phpBB as a teen, he blends full-stack craftsmanship with product-minded thinking and internal training on productivity and prioritization. Ekin publishes technical writing and sustainable productivity insights, and brings a rare combination of early entrepreneurial grit, formal CS training from Bilkent, and an MBA-shaped perspective on engineering trade-offs.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Koç Üniversitesi
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Bilkent University
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Ekin Öcalan - Senior Software Engineer II at HubSpot