Summary
Mert Çelen is a backend developer with 11 years of experience building game and enterprise server-side systems, currently working at Cratoonz and recently joined Pulse Games. He has held lead backend roles at Rune Games and Cratoonz and contributed to backend development at Masomo and HAVELSAN, blending startup agility with formal engineering practices from defense and gaming domains. Comfortable with driving teams and hands-on implementation, he has a track record of taking backend services from prototype to production across multiplayer and commercial game projects. Educated at Bilkent University with additional study at Waterford Institute of Technology, he brings solid academic grounding in computer technologies to pragmatic, performance-focused engineering. Based in Düzce, Turkey, Mert favors durable, scalable architectures and often bridges product needs and implementation details—an asset in fast-moving game backends where reliability and low-latency matter.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Technologies and Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Technologies and Information Systems at Bilkent University
Waterford Institute of Technology
English, Turkish