Yilmaz Akan
Enterprise Agility Coach (Transformation Lead - CTO) Digital Health Lead
Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolYilmaz Akan is an enterprise agility coach and digital health lead with 11 years of experience helping organizations from pharma to telecoms translate strategy into patient- and customer-focused outcomes. Currently leading transformation and digital health initiatives at Roche, he blends Adler-certified coaching, design thinking and lean startup practices to harmonize desirability, viability and feasibility across executive teams and self-managed squads. He teaches agile project management at Sabancı University and has built intrapreneurship labs and innovation frameworks for large corporates like TOFAS and Türk Telekom. Comfortable in both business and hands-on product contexts, he also contributes to open-source iOS tooling—adding practical Swift UI extensions that improve developer UX. Known as an energetic facilitator and keynote speaker, he pairs corporate rigor with a startup mindset and a knack for turning experiments into scalable learning. An unusual detail: he earned recognition as the youngest professional coach through Adler and leverages that early coaching pedigree to shape leadership mindsets in transformation programs.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Innovation at Harvard, Innovation at Harvard at iTunes UCoaching (Part I - II - III), Coaching (Part I - II - III) at Adler FacultyBSc, Economics, BSc, Economics at Bilkent Üniversitesi
English, German, Turkish
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Github Skills (26)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Esqarrouth/EZSwiftExtensions
Nov 2015 - Apr 2018
:smirk: How Swift standard types and classes were supposed to work.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 351 commits, 130 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yilmaz's primary contribution involved adding a significant number of Swift extensions for various UIKit components and standard types, indicating a focus on improving the developer experience within the Swift and iOS ecosystem. These extensions covered areas like UIViews, UIColors, Strings, and Dates. Furthermore, the user added UI-related elements such as BlockButtons, BlockSwipes, and UIWebView integration, suggesting a deep involvement with the front-end development of iOS applications.
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Esqarrouth/EZTextSpace
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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