Summary
Emre Turan is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over a decade of hands-on and executive experience building cloud-native, high-throughput systems across startups and scale-ups. Currently pursuing an MBA at the University of Oxford, he directs engineering organizations at BetterUp after leading 14 cross-functional teams (~130 engineers) at Getir and guiding the technical due diligence and integration for Gorillas’ $1B acquisition. He has run CTO-level product and platform work at UNL—shipping geospatial routing and geocoding infrastructure—and scaled teams and CI/CD across multi-cloud environments at Deloitte and other firms. Known for combining product-minded technical stewardship with people-first engineering culture, he has a track record of reducing turnover and accelerating delivery velocity. A serial founder and early app entrepreneur, he launched and monetized a consumer app with over a million downloads, demonstrating both go-to-market instincts and technical delivery. Based in the Randstad, he mentors cloud architecture and IaC best practices and brings rare depth in distributed systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, and multi-cloud operations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Programming, Associate of Science (A.S.) Computer Programming at Istanbul University
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Istanbul Bilgi University
Organizational Leadership, Organizational Leadership at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
English, Turkish