Uğur Karataş
Founder CEO at Burgan Teknoloji
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUğur Karataş is a founder and engineering-led CEO specializing in enterprise-grade digital banking platforms, with two decades of experience designing large-scale, regulated banking systems across digital channels, APIs, and platform architectures. He builds production-ready, cloud-native solutions that prioritize security, scalability, and long-term architectural sustainability, having led platform, DevOps, testing, and enterprise architecture functions at major Turkish banks. Uğur combines deep banking domain expertise with hands-on engineering discipline—moving banks from manual testing and monoliths to automated testing, Kubernetes, Kafka, and API-driven open banking. As an entrepreneur he now leads Burgan Technology to deliver end-to-end mobile, web, call-center and core service banking platforms for regulated institutions. His uncommon strength is translating strict governance and compliance needs into pragmatic, automated engineering practices that keep mission-critical services resilient. Based in Istanbul, he pairs an MBA in MIS with a computer engineering background and a career that started in software product and solution architecture.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Vocational College, Computer Programing, Vocational College, Computer Programing at Cukurova UniversityMBA, MIS, MBA, MIS at Bahcesehir UniversityBS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (24)
gsm9
subsystem8
sdk8
sms8
gateway7
dockerfile7
workitem6
vscode6
cli6
contract6
prefix6
dotnet6
docker-compose6
csharp5
visual-studio5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ukaratas/smartplaces
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Smart Home, Camper and Boat Management Software
Contributions:2 PRs, 85 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
dockerboatsoftware-managementboatscamper
ukaratas/ukaratas
Apr 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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