Summary
Fatma Ocal is a software engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and IoT platforms across startups and enterprise teams. Based in San Francisco, she led security and scalability initiatives at Microsoft—authoring a secrets auto-rotation service that saved $131K annually and architecting multi-region, auto-scaling build infrastructure—and now co-founds ParQo to apply AI and IoT to smarter urban mobility and infrastructure. Her background spans full lifecycle product work from a 0→1 data loader at Woopra to industrial IoT services at GE, combining backend systems design, Terraform-driven infra, and realtime analytics. Comfortable bridging technical and business stakeholders, she pairs hands-on C#, Java and cloud expertise with a habit of exploring agentic AI research in practical city-scale testbeds. Notably, she rotates between deep engineering and entrepreneurial roles, bringing both product intuition and operational rigor to ambitious, infrastructure-focused problems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Assumption University
Master of Science (MSc.) Management and Information Systems, Master of Science (MSc.) Management and Information Systems at Cranfield University