Kadir Topal
Senior Product Manager at Google
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKadir Topal is a Senior Product Manager with 15 years of experience building developer-facing and consumer web products, currently focused at Google on making the Web more reliable and predictable. He led product strategy and growth for MDN Web Docs at Mozilla—growing the audience from 6M to 15.5M monthly users—and later directed IPFS adoption and web3.storage product work at Protocol Labs. Hands-on background in HCI and front-end engineering (notably contributing UI and backend fixes to Mozilla’s open-source Kitsune support platform) gives him a rare blend of product vision and implementation fluency. He introduced continuous discovery, KPI-driven roadmaps, and agile practices in globally distributed teams, and has repeatedly scaled community-driven platforms and localization efforts. Based in Duisburg, Germany, he combines academic training in HCI and computational linguistics with startup founding experience to turn complex ecosystems into delightful, usable products.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Computational Linguistics, Political science, German studies, 1.0, MA, Computational Linguistics, Political science, German studies, 1.0 at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort EssenHuman-Computer-Interaction, Human-Computer-Interaction at Chalmers tekniska högskola
Turkish, German, English
Github Skills (14)
html10
css10
code-templates10
apptemplates10
javascript10
user-interface10
cpp-templates10
html-template10
front-end-development10
python-templates10
django10
python9
ui-design9
lessc9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/kitsune
Dec 2011 - Jan 2014
Platform for Mozilla Support
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kadir primarily contributes to the front-end and UI aspects of the Kitsune platform, evident in the modifications to CSS, HTML templates, and JavaScript files. They addressed various bugs related to visual presentation, user experience, and page layouts. Additionally, the user demonstrates back-end knowledge by modifying admin panels, templates, and code related to database interactions and email functionalities.
mozilla
atopal/testapp
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 branch, 3 issues in 9 months
pythonfirst-repository
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