Uğur Akçil
Director Of Software Engineering at Digital Exchange
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolUğur Akçil is a seasoned Director of Software Engineering based in Istanbul with over 20 years of hands-on engineering roots and nine years in senior leadership roles driving product and platform delivery. He blends full-stack fluency—from PHP/Laravel and CodeIgniter to NodeJS, Python, Go and React—with practical DevOps experience building CI/CD, cloud and Linux operations. As a serial founder and CTO he shipped a cryptocurrency trading platform, VOIP solutions and enterprise payment systems, and even boosted development efficiency by 270% through a custom framework and automation work. Known for rescuing legacy systems under tight deadlines, he combines pragmatic problem-solving with security-minded engineering. He holds a degree in Economics and a certificate in Data Science & Machine Learning, reflecting a habit of pairing business context with technical depth. Notably, his career began in freelance web ventures in the mid-2000s, giving him long experience across startups, agencies and product organizations.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Anadolu ÜniversitesiHigh School Diploma, Electrical and Electronics, High School Diploma, Electrical and Electronics at Nahit Mentese Technical High SchoolCertificate Program, Data Science & Machine Learning, Certificate Program, Data Science & Machine Learning at İstanbul Gedik Üniversitesi
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Github contributions (5)
ugurakcil/voyager-booster
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:18 releases, 29 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
ugurakcil/relaxer
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 10 pushes in 5 months
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