Summary
Neslihan Saygılı is a seasoned engineering manager and founder with 13 years of experience building and scaling web platforms and engineering teams from Istanbul. She co-founded Prisync and led its development, growing the product to handle millions of users and complex scraping workloads while owning architecture, DevOps, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Comfortable across Java, PHP, Python, Node.js and frontend stacks, she combines hands-on full‑stack engineering with Terraform-driven IaC, monitoring, and CI/CD practices. As a mentor and people leader she has run multiple sub-teams, conducted performance reviews, and fostered cross-team knowledge sharing to improve delivery and career growth. Now leading Step Up, she leverages startup grit and deep technical oversight to drive product innovation and operational resilience. A former Pardus contributor and continuous learner with an MSc in Computer Engineering, she brings uncommon breadth across systems, tooling, and team development.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Engineering, M.Sc. Computer Engineering at Galatasaray University
Science, Science at Gaziantep Science High School
BSc. Computer Engineering, BSc. Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English