Summary
Umurcan Görür is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems, cost-optimized infrastructure, and developer teams across gaming, blockchain, and SaaS. He has repeatedly driven large operational savings—most notably migrating Clicker Games to bare-metal to cut monthly costs by ~75% while maintaining low-latency service for 7,000 concurrent players. Comfortable both architecting systems and shipping code, he has led teams of 40+ developers to deliver production-grade crypto and tokenization platforms, production AI services, and high-availability web backends. His tooling repertoire spans Python, TypeScript/Nuxt, PostgreSQL, Redis, Terraform/Ansible, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability with Prometheus/OTEL, resulting in measurable uptime and MTTR improvements. A founder at heart, he pairs hands-on technical execution with investor and event-facing experience, bringing product and infrastructure priorities into alignment. Based in Istanbul, he is known for introducing chaos drills and CI/CD rigor that turn theoretical reliability practices into day-to-day operational resilience.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, General at Anadolu University
İngilizce, Turkish