Meriç Yılmaz is an engineer-turned-people leader with 10 years of experience blending hands-on software development and operational leadership to scale teams and products. After starting as a frontend developer and evolving into full‑stack and backend roles at bunq, she co-founded and led engineering at Envanterium before returning to bunq to build and run the Istanbul office across HR, finance, ops, and engineering. Now Head of HR Operations, she applies an engineer’s problem‑solving mindset to people systems, improving scalability and culture with data-informed, practical solutions. Her background in both chemical and computer engineering and early work on sequence-to-sequence models hint at a rare mix of analytical rigor and product sensibility. Colleagues value her for wearing many hats effectively and for prioritizing growth—of herself, her teams, and the organizational culture.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering & Chemical and Biological Engineering, 3.11, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering & Chemical and Biological Engineering, 3.11 at Koç Üniversitesi
Istanbul Erkek Lisesi
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Chemical Engineering at Macquarie University
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