Uğur Erkan is a Co-Founder and senior software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable backend systems, primarily using PHP, for web, mobile and cloud environments. He has led engineering teams and shipped production-grade architectures across startups and scaleups—from founding rebase to senior roles at companies like Flick, NADUVI and fonq.nl—bringing a practical focus on performance, maintainability and long-term reliability. Comfortable spanning hands-on coding to technical leadership, he emphasizes sustainable engineering practices and continuous learning to keep systems robust as they grow. Based in Istanbul, he combines a formal background in Management Information Systems and Economics with entrepreneurial grit, often tackling both product and infrastructure challenges himself. A pragmatic problem-solver, he favors measurable improvements (latency, cost, testability) over flashy tech, which has helped him repeatedly move projects from prototype to production.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at Istanbul University
Bachelor's degree, Economics, Bachelor's degree, Economics at Anadolu University
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