Summary
Ergin Sarikaya is a software engineering manager and tech lead with 11 years of experience building warehouse automation and supply-chain software, currently leading a 6–7 person team at Picnic Technologies. He blends hands-on full‑stack development with systems architecture, driving scalable, high‑availability services and cloud migrations while improving delivery velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency. His background spans industrial engineering and simulation work at Procter & Gamble to data-driven ETL and distributed systems at Cargill, giving him a strong foundation in both operational optimization and software. Ergin emphasizes engineering best practices—CI/CD, testing, observability—and hires and mentors engineers to grow cohesive, high-performing teams. Based in the Netherlands and holding advanced CS and engineering degrees, he quietly bridges domain expertise in manufacturing/warehousing with pragmatic software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
MS Industrial Engineering, MS Industrial Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology
BS Industrial Engineering, BS Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University
English, Turkish, Dutch