High-impact, hands-on CTO & Chief Architect with a proven track record of rebuilding platforms others consider unsalvageable and designing stable, long-term architectures that eliminate future crises. Combines deep engineering expertise across infrastructure, security, databases, distributed systems, CI/CD, DDoS mitigation, cloud networking and reverse engineering with enterprise-scale architectural leadership. Acts as the final technical authority in high-risk scenarios while keeping organizational friction low through business-aligned governance. Has built real AI-driven systems beyond prompt-based wrappers, including vector databases, semantic retrieval and LLM orchestration layers used in production data foundations. Experienced in both long-term product ownership and high-intensity consulting, with platforms remaining in active use years after delivery.
Skype : canbatuerdem
Phone : +90-532-666-3519
Email : canbatuerdem@gmail.com
Website : www.canbatuerdem.com
Address : Antalya / Turkey
DOA Software, Istanbul (Turkey)
Held full technical authority over all high-risk architectural decisions while leading a cross-functional team of 15+ across engineering, analysis, infrastructure and sales-technical streams. Rebuilt multiple legacy systems through deep reverse engineering in under two weeks, transformed half-day manual deployments on 60 servers into a 15-second one-click pipeline, and directly resolved critical Cloudflare, DDoS, load-balancer and tunnel-architecture failures. Owned all international meetings, demos and negotiations as the sole English-speaking lead, defined the full modernization roadmap across cloud, security, architecture and delivery, and directly influenced sales by shaping solution architecture and leading technical negotiations.
09.2020
GYLD Agency, Melbourne (Australia)
Served in a project-based CTO role aligned with pre-seed investor timelines, concluding after delivery of the core demoable product. Led a 7-person engineering team as both shareholder and technology owner, delivering investor-ready iterations under extreme ASAP cycles. Built the full CI/CD automation from zero with one-click deployments, coordinated AU / TR / EU engineering dependencies for on-time delivery, architected and delivered the Athena platform foundations for investor demos, and implemented a real AI data layer including vector databases, semantic retrieval, ETL and LLM orchestration.
06.2023-10.2023
UniCredit, Milan (Italy)
Led the HR Digital Transformation for UniCredit Italy by coordinating and influencing 200+ cross-regional contributors across Italy, Germany and Turkey vendor teams, driving delivery across multiple departments and hierarchies. Supported HR platforms serving 30,000+ employees including payroll, leave, identity and workforce systems, built deployment pipelines from scratch to increase stability and reduce deployment failure rates by ~20%, and owned the full SQL Server & Oracle performance layer with AWR-driven tuning on heavy workloads. Acted as the primary security authority by defining DMZ and internal server segmentation, enforcing all firewall and security rules, and managed the internal–external vendor ecosystem to ensure delivery quality, architectural alignment and compliance.
06.2018-06.2020
BIS Cozum, Istanbul (Turkey)
Led the Framework & Mobile teams responsible for six enterprise products across banking and finance, while designing large-scale architectures leveraging AWS, Azure, ESXi and distributed system components. Played a key role in the UniCredit Italy transformation program spanning architecture, infrastructure planning and delivery lifecycle, and standardized development practices to significantly reduce feature delivery times while improving long-term maintainability.
06.2016-11.2017
Yapi Kredi, Kocaeli (Turkey)
Served as a trusted advisor to the HR IT Director on strategy, feasibility and technology direction, regularly representing the director in both technical and managerial meetings. Provided continuous assessments on team capacity, technology adoption readiness and critical architecture decisions to support executive-level planning and risk management.
08.2013-09.2015
BIS Cozum, Istanbul (Turkey)
Designed enterprise-grade frameworks (Colossus, Dionysus, Ares) that were adopted by major financial institutions including Akbank, Yapı Kredi and İş Faktoring, enabling large-scale standardization across multiple products. Reduced module development time from approximately two days to four hours through framework-driven architecture, while significantly increasing developer productivity by enforcing consistent development patterns, integrations and tooling.
07.2012-06.2016
BIS Cozum, Istanbul (Turkey)
Led the end-to-end development of a consumer finance platform spanning database design, backend services and user interface layers, while delivering high-performance dealer module components using Microsoft Silverlight with custom framework integrations to meet demanding real-time performance and enterprise usability requirements.
10.2011-07.2012
Nexum Bogazici, Istanbul (Turkey)
Maintained and continuously enhanced the online credit card processing platform serving multiple clients, while delivering custom developments across diverse parallel projects to improve reliability, feature delivery speed and overall customer outcomes.
04.2011-10.2011
VeriPark, Istanbul (Turkey)
Implemented 3D Secure payment integrations across approximately 25 banks, powering high-traffic platforms such as Yemeksepeti, and built scalable B2B/B2C components to support large-volume, mission-critical financial operations.
10.2010-04.2011
[BSc] Computer Engineering (Faculty of Engineering and Design)
2006-2011
Science and Math
2002-2006