Yekmer Simsek is a Berlin-based technology leader and founder with 11 years of hands-on engineering and 15 years in the tech industry, experienced across startups and large corporations. He has led Android and full-stack teams as an engineering manager at HelloFresh and Vestiaire Collective, and co-founded AI-driven and digital health startups where he oversaw architecture, product delivery, and automation. His technical breadth spans mobile, backend, ML/AI integrations and cloud infrastructure—Python, Django, Flutter, React, LangChain, FAISS, RDS, Redis, Celery and Terraform feature prominently in his stack. Yekmer excels at turning product needs into scalable systems and mentoring teams to deliver customer-focused experiences. He brings a practical blend of startup grit and enterprise discipline, having shipped consumer-facing apps and complex backend systems across multiple markets. An early maker and problem-solver, he started building production systems and mobile apps while still at university, which informs his product-first engineering approach.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
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