Summary
Mehmet Yücel is an enterprise architect with 12 years of experience designing and implementing high-load distributed systems and microservice architectures for leading Turkish companies. He combines hands-on engineering (Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes) with platform-wide responsibilities—central logging, observability, API gateway patterns, and CI/CD—to make complex, event-driven systems resilient and operable. At Akinon and prior roles he led payment, fraud and commerce API designs while introducing monitoring/traceability (SkyWalking, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and anomaly detection on big data pipelines. Comfortable both coding and mentoring, he has repeatedly built teams and architected cloud-native transformations from scratch. Based in Istanbul, he describes himself simply as “Just a Developer,” reflecting a pragmatic, execution-first approach to enterprise-scale problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration and Management, General, 3, Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration and Management, General, 3 at Açıköğretim University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 2.73 / 4, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 2.73 / 4 at Ege Üniversitesi
lise, Sayısal, lise, Sayısal at Sinop Fen Lisesi
İngilizce, German