Serpil Bayraktar
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Walmart Global Tech
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSerpil Bayraktar is a seasoned technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading large-scale networking, cloud and security engineering organizations from research labs to production at companies like Cisco, Juniper, Menlo Security, Equinix and Walmart Global Tech. She combines deep routing and internet architecture expertise with hands-on delivery of cloud-native platforms, having launched major products such as Secure Private Access and a routing analytics product that moved toward commercialization and open-source efforts. Known for building and scaling high-performing teams (from small focused squads to organizations of 100+), she pairs technical vision with financial rigor—creating cost models and presenting forecasts to C-suite stakeholders. A proven integrator, she has driven cross-business collaborations across domains like SASE, SD-WAN and observability while shepherding IPv4 acquisitions and complex vendor/legal engagements. Beyond engineering, she has a track record of institutional impact—founding large internal programs like Cisco WISE and growing employee networks globally—reflecting a talent for people, policy and product. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she blends deep protocol-level knowledge with executive strategy and measurable operational delivery.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Eastern Michigan University
Turkish
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Github Skills (8)
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Github contributions (5)
SNAS/website
Apr 2017 - Sep 2017
www.snas.io
Contributions:55 commits, 24 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 months
serpilb/website
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:17 pushes in 14 days
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