Selim Bakdemir
Co-Founder & CTO at ESC Games
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolSelim Bakdemir is a seasoned software and game engineering leader with 12+ years building mobile and multiplayer experiences, now serving as Co-Founder & CTO of ESC Games. He brings deep hands-on expertise across iOS, Android, Unity and native-to-Unity migrations, having led client teams at Zynga and directed Unity development and studio operations for Moon Active. Early roots in electrical and embedded systems from Istanbul Technical University inform his pragmatic full-stack approach—he has shipped numerous App Store and Google Play titles plus backend APIs and real-time socket systems for multiplayer games. Selim is experienced in leading cross-functional teams, managing roadmaps and executing technical transformations while still contributing code. Notably, his career spans both low-level game tech (Cocos2d, Box2D) and large-scale live game maintenance, giving him a rare blend of systems-level and product-facing expertise. Based in Istanbul, he combines entrepreneurial drive with studio-level management and a proven track record of turning mobile game concepts into sustained live products.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, German
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Github Skills (27)
objective-c10
ios10
swift10
macos10
facebook-api9
integrate9
facebook-graph-api9
xcode9
cocoapods9
medium9
carthage8
facebook8
liquid7
jekyll7
jekyll-theme7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
selim1377/DrawingLabel
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 20 days
selim1377/selim1377.github.io
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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