Summary
Sercan Akmaz is an engineering manager with 15+ years in software and 11 years of hands-on experience leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-scale distributed systems. He has repeatedly improved reliability and delivery—cutting downtime by over 92%, boosting delivery success from 43% to 78%, and reducing customer-reported issues by 85%—while architecting microservices, DDD, and CQRS-based platforms that handle billions of data points. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he launched a pilot-ready low-code platform and drove monetization-minded tech decisions like a Monolith-first approach to speed early market fit. He also pairs operational savvy (ITSM, cloud cost optimization) with people development, running cross-functional teams of up to 25 and instituting training and code review cultures. Based in Istanbul, he blends pragmatic engineering with startup-style grant and investor engagement to turn technical initiatives into viable products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at Istanbul University
78, Database Programming, 78, Database Programming at Ataturk Cagdas Yasam Lissi
English, Turkish, German