Şeref Ayar
Studio Director at Deloitte
Marmaris, Muğla, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolŞeref Ayar is a seasoned technology leader and Studio Director based in Marmaris, Turkey, with 14 years of focused experience and over two decades in the industry driving enterprise digital commerce transformations. He specializes in leading and scaling cross-functional engineering teams to deliver modular, headless e-commerce platforms (SAP Commerce Cloud, Spryker) and cloud-native architectures that enable seamless omnichannel experiences. As a hands-on solutions architect and former managing partner, he blends strategic roadmap ownership, modern engineering practices (CI/CD, DDD, TDD, cloud-native), and vendor/budget optimisation to align technical work with business KPIs. He has deep experience in SAP CX integrations and large-scale rollouts across multiple countries, and he mentors engineering managers while instituting scalable hiring and performance frameworks. An active back-end contributor to the notable open-source Duckling project, he added Turkish language support for number, temperature and duration parsing—an indicator of his practical NLP and polyglot coding background. Practical, product-minded, and comfortable toggling between C-level strategy and core engineering, he thrives on turning complex enterprise requirements into reliable, maintainable systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Anadolu Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
Github Skills (7)
regular-expression10
nlp10
parsing10
parse10
haskell10
natural-language-processing10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/duckling
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Language, engine, and tooling for expressing, testing, and evaluating composable language rules on input strings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 4 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Şeref contributed significantly to the Duckling project, focusing on natural language processing and rule-based language parsing. Their work included implementing features for Turkish language support, specifically related to number and temperature recognition, as well as duration parsing. The commits involved modifications to core Haskell code, including changes to rules, corpora, and tests, demonstrating a focus on expanding the project's language capabilities and improving accuracy. The user also enhanced the duration parsing rules.
stringstestinghaskellquery-languageagda
serefayar/ayatori
Jan 2022 - Nov 2022
An experimental LRA (Saga) Orchestrator
Contributions:27 commits, 17 PRs, 17 pushes in 9 months
orchestratorsagapolylithlramicroservices
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