Summary
Umut Bilgiç is a pragmatic engineering leader and Co-Founder & CTO with a decade of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and quantitative finance tooling. Based in Darmstadt, he blends hands-on software engineering—serverless and distributed systems, asset management backtesting, and web visualization—with product-minded leadership at CitySeek and Inkubator 100 Plus. Comfortable in tight-knit teams, he emphasizes solid coding principles, reproducible data science practices and honest communication to move ideas into production. His background spans smart-city prototypes at Microsoft, end-to-end encrypted deployments at TU Darmstadt, and stewardship roles in open science and responsible synthetic biology through iGEM. Colleagues value him for combining entrepreneurial grit with rigorous technical craft and a bias toward pragmatic, measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Bilkent University
English, German, Turkish