Summary
Ugur Ozturk is an Engineering Manager based in Izmir, Turkey with 10 years of experience building and leading backend, DevOps, and SRE teams in fast-moving product environments. He progressed at Cherry from Senior DevOps Engineer to DevOps Lead and now Engineering Manager, driving cloud-native, serverless and operational excellence for a growing FinTech. His background spans freelance serverless backends on AWS, platform reliability at game developer Masomo, and full-stack/cloud engineering at Emakina.TR, giving him a rare blend of hands-on implementation and team leadership. He emphasizes CI/CD automation, observability, and scalable architectures, and has a track record of delivering high-quality work (100% Upwork job success, 5/5 rating). Comfortable switching between code, infrastructure and management, he leverages machine-learning and backend experience to solve cross-disciplinary problems. Fluent in building processes as well as systems, he pairs academic grounding in software engineering with practical experience shipping global services.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Science, Mathematics and Science at Atakent Anatolian Highschool
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Yaşar Üniversitesi (Yaşar University)
Milli Piyango Anatolian Highschool
Bilgisayar Bilimleri, Bilgisayar Bilimleri at HOWEST Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen
Master's degree İşletme ve Yönetim Genel, Master's degree İşletme ve Yönetim Genel at Ege University
Turkish, İngilizce