Summary
Yıldırım Adıgüzel is a seasoned software engineering leader and founder with over two decades of experience delivering large-scale, data-driven platforms and digital transformation for e-commerce and enterprise clients. Currently a Software Engineering Manager at PostPilot and running a Big Data & AI consultancy, he blends hands-on architecture and modern cloud-native stacks with executive-level strategy to align technology with business KPIs. He has built and scaled clickstream and real-time pipelines handling millions of events per minute using Kafka, Flink, Spark and cloud data platforms, and led multiple microservices transformations and ML-driven features in production. As a serial founder and former CTO at major marketplaces, he pairs product sensibility with engineering rigor—introducing TDD, CI/CD, observability, and platform automation to improve delivery velocity. An interesting thread across his career is repeatedly turning analytics and behavioral data into monetizable personalization and automation capabilities for commerce. Based in Irvine and pursuing advanced studies in ML/AI at Berkeley Haas, he combines practical execution with continuing academic depth.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Machine Learning & AI, Postgraduate Degree, Machine Learning & AI at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
High School, Mathematics and Science, High School, Mathematics and Science at Milli Piyango Anadolu Lisesi
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Gazi University
English, Turkish