Mert Alınbay is a seasoned operations leader with 13 years’ experience managing port, container and truck logistics across multiple Turkish terminals, currently serving as Chief of Operations at GROUP FMS. He combines hands‑on field experience—customs clearance, transit declarations and red‑line inspections—with office-side coordination of delivery orders, client billing and finance oversight. Promoted from entry-level field roles to lead an operations team, he’s skilled at process division, documentation and ensuring field teams have precise execution instructions. Academically grounded with a Master’s in Economics and a Bachelor’s in International Trade & Business, he also contributed to a TÜBİTAK‑supported research project handling complex dataset preparation. Outside logistics, he contributes backend fixes to the widely used Simple Machines Forum open‑source project, showing a practical curiosity for software and community tools. Based in Pendik, Istanbul, he brings a pragmatic, data‑oriented approach to streamlining operations under shifting market conditions.
13 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree, Economics, Master’s Degree, Economics at Bülent Ecevit University
High School, High School at Ödemiş Lisesi
Bachelor’s Degree, International Trade & Bussiness, Bachelor’s Degree, International Trade & Bussiness at Zonguldak Karaelmas Üniversitesi
Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is free and open-source community forum software, delivering professional grade features in a package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:527 commits, 104 PRs, 643 comments in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mert's commits primarily focus on improvements and fixes within the Simple Machines Forum (SMF) software. The contributions involved fixing HTML5 validation issues, adding support for various features such as color highlighting, and addressing minor bugs within the core application. A significant portion of the commits involved modifying and enhancing core functionality.
Contributions:3 PRs, 340 pushes, 205 branches in 7 years 5 months
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