Summary
Ömür Kartal is a software developer and domain architect based in Rotterdam with over eight years of hands-on experience designing resilient, enterprise-grade banking systems and developer platforms. He has blended roles as a senior developer, team lead and agile coach—driving platform development with Spring ecosystem, Kafka, OpenShift and observability stacks while guiding 10+ Scrum/Kanban teams through transformations. His background includes specialist work in fraud detection, AML integrations and in-house ALM tooling, giving him deep domain knowledge of financial compliance and operational resilience. Currently at Timewax, he continues to build cloud-native, containerized applications informed by his past role as a resilience manager for core banking services. Colleagues describe him as a software crafter who pairs architectural thinking with practical delivery and coaching skills. A high-performing Computer Engineering graduate, he quietly combines technical depth with a knack for translating compliance-heavy requirements into maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering Department, 3.44 / 4, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering Department, 3.44 / 4 at Yıldız Technical University
4.92 / 5, 4.92 / 5 at Bahçelievler High School (Including foreign language preparatory class)
English, Turkish