Taşkın UĞURLU
İstanbul
Summary
Software Architect and Founder with 8+ years of experience building and scaling microservices and event-driven platforms. Delivered a nationwide financial-product comparison system integrating 18 banks and 5 product categories across 36 services, and an AI-based ad-fraud platform that monitors more than 10,000 search ads per day with over 99.8% uptime and over 95% detection accuracy. Led a cross-functional team of 4 developers and 1 analyst and shipped secure messaging and payment systems aligned with ISO 27001 and GDPR, using .NET, C#, Azure, Docker, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) with AMQP-based brokers, MQTT, and Kafka. Known for turning complex communication and financial-services problems into reliable, low-latency products, including systems with p95 latency of 260 ms, culminating in a platform acquisition in July 2025.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Developer, Independent
Freelance
05.2025 - Current
- Architecting a niche digital product addressing a complex real-world communication problem using AI-driven systems.
- Established full microservice architecture and CI/CD pipelines enabling scalable deployments.
- Implemented secure messaging protocols based on Signal and JWT, improving data integrity and latency by 25%.
- Conducting R&D on AI integration and distributed event systems to optimize performance across 3 core modules.
- Managing the closed-beta phase with 300+ targeted users and early performance success metrics over 85% satisfaction.
Founder, Software Architect, Senior Developer
Hemen Basvur — Financial Technology Platform
06.2023 - 07.2025
- Architected and led the development of a nationwide financial comparison platform integrating 18 banks and 5 product categories, built on 36 microservices using ASP.NET Core and Docker.
- Designed and implemented scalable backend infrastructure and high-performance APIs that delivered near-instant response times, ensuring seamless user experience even during heavy campaign traffic.
- Developed dynamic filtering and ranking logic enabling users to compare credit, deposit, and investment products accurately and efficiently.
- Implemented robust security and privacy practices aligned with ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance requirements.
- Led a cross-functional team of 4 developers and 1 analyst, defining the product roadmap, sprint planning, and quality standards across the entire lifecycle.
- Optimized infrastructure reliability through container orchestration and caching mechanisms, achieving consistent uptime and rapid recovery during service interruptions.
- Outcome: Established a sustainable financial-services technology architecture adopted nationwide; the platform was acquired by a marketing-technology company in July 2025.
Founder, Software Architect, Senior Developer
Brand SEM
06.2020 - 07.2025
- Created and led the development of an AI-driven brand-bidding and cloaking-detection platform monitoring over 10,000 search ads daily across major advertising networks.
- Engineered a custom bot framework simulating human browsing behavior with distributed IP rotation and user-agent management, identifying unauthorized brand usage with >95% accuracy.
- Developed multi-threaded parsing and crawling modules that increased detection throughput by 3×, reducing average analysis time per domain from minutes to seconds.
- Directed the entire backend architecture, event-driven data pipelines, and reporting dashboards; achieved system uptime above 99.8%.
- Served top Turkish and international brands in finance, telecom, and e-commerce, preventing fraudulent ad spending and protecting brand integrity.
- Outcome: Strengthened expertise in SaaS lifecycle management, fraud prevention, and international market expansion strategies.
Co-Founder, Software Developer
We2Pay
01.2019 - 03.2019
- Architected a multi-POS payment aggregation layer with ASP.NET MVC and Web API, integrating 6 bank/payment gateways into a single merchant console.
- Delivered unified routing and reconciliation, processing ~8,500 transactions per month in pilot with an authorization success rate of 96%.
- Reduced settlement discrepancies by 38% via idempotent callback handling and signature verification; cut average authorization latency from 420 ms to 260 ms.
- Implemented role-based access control and audit logging aligned with PCI-DSS principles, achieving 100% error-free pilot releases across 4 production-like deployments.
Co-Founder, Software Developer
WeShop
09.2018 - 03.2019
- Architected a social-commerce marketplace with an escrow payment model for Instagram sellers, serving ~100 active sellers and ~1,200 monthly buyers at MVP launch.
- Designed and implemented secure order workflows (milestone-based escrow, dispute handling) that reduced chargebacks by 28% and cut average dispute resolution time to 3 days.
- Built authentication and authorization with ASP.NET Core (JWT, role-based access, optional 2FA), keeping account-takeover incidents at 0 throughout the pilot.
- Integrated 2 payment gateways and automated settlement/reconciliation, achieving an authorization success rate of 94%.
- Optimized checkout performance to p95 260 ms and maintained 99.4% uptime under campaign traffic via caching and database tuning.
- Established CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, delivering 6 production-like releases with 98% error-free deployments.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Programming
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
Çanakkale, Turkey06-2018
Skills
- NET
- Docker Containerization
- Azure
- Rabbit MQ
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Microservices Architecture
- Event-Driven Systems
- API Design & Integration
- System Design
- Security by Design
- Team Leadership
Accomplishments
- Founded and led BrandSEM, an AI-driven brand protection and ad fraud detection platform used by leading Turkish and international brands.
- Developed and scaled HemenBaşvur, a financial-technology platform integrating 18 banks to compare financial products in real time, later acquired by Adsglad.
- Architected end-to-end microservice infrastructures using .NET, RabbitMQ, and Docker, achieving up to 35% faster response times under high traffic.
- Built custom bot frameworks capable of detecting cloaking and brand bidding violations through IP rotation and user-agent simulation.
- Graduated as University Valedictorian (Top of the University) — ranked #1 among all departments at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University.
- Published 4 scientific papers in semantic analysis, IoT-based systems, and Turkish Sign Language translation technologies.
- Directed multiple SaaS projects combining software architecture, business model design, and technical leadership — bridging technology and strategy.
Additional Information
- Fırat, Y. And Uğurlu, T. (2024) . "CORPUS-BASED ANNOTATION EDITOR DEVELOPED FOR TURKISH." Ases VIII. Uluslararasi Saglik Mühendislik ve Fen-Bilimleri Kongresi , İzmir, Turkey, pp.82-94.
- Fırat, Y. And Uğurlu, T. (2019) . "Application of the Turkish Sign Language Translation System Developed by Semantic Analysis Models over the Internet of Things at the Web Medium." Erzincan Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi , vol.12, no.3, pp.1613-1626.
- Fırat, Y. And Uğurlu, T. (2018) . "Turkish Sign Language Translation System with a Lattice-Based Semantic Analysis." Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi , vol.7, no.2, pp.490-503.
- Fırat, Y. And Uğurlu, T. (2018) . "Automatic GarageDoor System with Arduino For Defined License plates of Cars." İDAP 2018 Inrenational Conferance on Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing İnönü University , Malatya, Turkey, pp.952-959.
Languages
Turkish
Native or Bilingual
English
Professional Working
Timeline
Senior Software Developer, Independent
Freelance
05.2025 - Current
Founder, Software Architect, Senior Developer
Hemen Basvur — Financial Technology Platform
06.2023 - 07.2025
Founder, Software Architect, Senior Developer
Brand SEM
06.2020 - 07.2025
Co-Founder, Software Developer
We2Pay
01.2019 - 03.2019
Co-Founder, Software Developer
WeShop
09.2018 - 03.2019
Associate of Applied Science - Computer Programming
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi