Turgay Birand
Founder CEO at Saasdo Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTurgay Birand is a serial entrepreneur and founder-CEO with 12 years of focused experience building and scaling SaaS businesses from incubation to exit. He founded EditionGuard, a secure e-commerce DRM service, co-founded BNP Technology to power major Turkish retailers, and now leads Saasdo Inc., which acquires and scales SaaS products. Technically fluent and product-minded, he combines hands-on software delivery with remote team management and online marketing to turn complex ideas into operational platforms. His M.Sc. in Information Systems from Middle East Technical University and a B.S. in Astrophysics lend him a rare mix of analytical rigor and systems thinking. Based in Vancouver, he also advised startups through strategic growth phases, bringing practical experience in integrations, payment/DRM architectures and SaaS GTM. An operator-founder who still dives into product and technical details, he’s known for turning niche technical services into repeatable revenue engines.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Astrophysics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Astrophysics at Michigan State UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Information Systems at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (33)
golang9
go8
mistral8
llama8
llm8
ollama7
readium7
gemma7
chrome6
encryption6
toggl6
emberjs6
configurations6
amazon-web-services6
chrome-extension6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
EditionGuard/WooCommerce-Plugin
Sep 2016 - Sep 2020
This repo is for development of the WooCommerce plugin for EditionGuard (http://www.editionguard.com), an eBook DRM service. The plugin adds secure eBook sales and delivery functionality to WooCommerce stores.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 4 years
ebooksecuredrmwordpresswoocommerce
EditionGuard/Magento2-Extension
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Magento 2.1+ extension for EditionGuard lives here.
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
magento-2magento2-modulemagento2magento2-extensionmagento
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