Summary
Mehmet Akşahin is a senior software engineer and team lead with eight years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems across crypto payments, test automation, defense, and startup products. He currently leads cross-functional backend, frontend, mobile and QA teams at Bitpace, designing microservice architectures using Java/Spring, CQRS/Saga patterns, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud. Previously he managed large engineering organizations at Testinium, balancing hands-on coding with overseeing 38 engineers and complex serverless and containerized platforms on AWS, Azure and GCP. His background in real-time and middleware systems for defense projects and as a co-founder/CTO of a consumer mobile app gives him a rare mix of rigor in reliability and product-driven agility. Mehmet is a pragmatic architect who still writes production code, and he often applies patterns from mission-critical systems to optimize throughput and observability in fintech products.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Beşiktaş Sakıp Sabancı Anadolu Lisesi
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Kocaeli University
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Akhmet Yassawi University
Turkish, English