İlyas Özkurt
Engineering Manager at Beyn Technology
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top Schoolİlyas Özkurt is an Engineering Manager based in Istanbul with 14 years of PHP-focused software development experience and 9 years in leadership roles, currently guiding a 30-person engineering organization at Beyn Technology. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, MySQL, Redis and modern JS stacks with a track record of building high-traffic API services and backoffice systems that generate large-scale data (≈100 TB/month). Known for driving modernization and refactoring of legacy services, he pairs agile program management and technical decision-making to align engineering output with product goals. He also oversees hiring and capacity planning for multiple Scrum teams, ensuring technical blockers are removed and delivery stays on course. Detail-oriented and fast-paced, İlyas is comfortable both directing large teams and rolling up his sleeves to implement critical features. An unusual strength is his blend of long-term strategic planning with day-to-day production experience from projects he built from scratch, such as core e-commerce and SaaS platforms.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bülent Ecevit UniversityLisans Derecesi, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication, Lisans Derecesi, Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication at Anadolu ÜniversitesiAkyazı Anadolu Lisesi
Turkish, İngilizce
Github Skills (69)
automobile10
laravel-localization10
localization10
translation10
vue10
whmcs10
laravel-package10
mollie9
laravel-nova9
laravel9
validation9
internationalization9
phone-number9
validating9
breeze9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ilyasozkurt/mobilephone-brands-and-models
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:25 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
ilyasozkurt/automobile-models-and-specs
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 11 months
mysqlspecsoptionsdatabasejson
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