Summary
Mert Celik is a Head of Engineering specializing in SDKs and platform engineering with a decade of experience building high-throughput, developer-friendly integrations for security-sensitive products. Based in Tallinn, he has led platform strategy and SDK architecture at Veriff, delivering APIs and SDKs that handle hundreds of millions of monthly requests and are used by 1000+ integration partners. He combines hands-on SDK development (iOS, Objective-C/Swift, Unity) with organization-building—hiring and mentoring engineering managers and staff engineers to scale teams and ownership. Known for improving integration velocity and developer experience, he also built internal verification tooling and gateway layers that cut integration time by over 25%. His background in ad tech and electrical/electronics engineering gives him a pragmatic systems perspective that blends performance, security, and regulatory considerations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering at Tallinna Tehnikaülikool
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Başkent Üniversitesi
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Software Engineering at Tartu Ülikool
English, Turkish