Summary
Kaan Taş is a Head of Engineering based in Istanbul with nine years of experience building and scaling microservice-driven systems for high-traffic e-commerce and logistics platforms. At Trendyol Group he progressed from software engineer to engineering team lead and now leads Logistics Tech, shaping autonomous teams, hiring and mentoring engineers, and defining OKRs that drive international projects across the Gulf, EU and Azerbaijan. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker and observability tooling with practical operational design for highly scalable systems. His background spans fintech-grade backend work at Yapı Kredi and early big data/Spark experience, giving him a strong foundation in both transactional and streaming architectures. Known for reorganizing teams to meet changing business needs, he blends technical depth with people-first leadership and a track record of shipping impactful cross-border features.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Anadolu University
Turkish, English