YALIN YORULMAZ / PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

From building software to leading products.

Roles, responsibilities and client work across enterprise software, digital agencies and application security.

Roles & responsibilities

This record distinguishes employers and roles from the customer organisations served through project work. Independent work can overlap with employed roles.

Professional experience

Senior Product Manager · Massive Bio

Senior Product Manager at Massive Bio.

February 2018 – ongoing · Istanbul

Founder · SatrancOnline

Founded SatrancOnline to develop a chess-playing artificial intelligence and build and manage the product’s brand. The work combines software development with the responsibility of shaping an independent product.

The current portfolio entry is Satranc Online ↗, a tool for multi-engine chess analysis and comparing engine assessments.

January 2021 – December 2021 · Istanbul

Technical Product Owner · Invicti Security

Planned, led and delivered product features for integrations between Netsparker Enterprise / Acunetix 360 and third-party products and services.

  • Used agile project management methodologies to organise and deliver integration work.
  • Worked at the intersection of application security products and the external tools and services they connect to.

June 2019 – December 2020 · Istanbul

Expert Security Coordinator · Sony Electronics

Managed and coordinated global application security projects using agile project management methodologies. This role extended my delivery experience into security work spanning a global organisational context.

January 2018 – September 2018 · Istanbul

Senior Project Manager · Cevahir Teknoloji

Managed and led software projects for the Awenpi brand/product, serving customers across several sectors. Responsibilities included managing the development team and customer relationships, using both waterfall and agile project management methodologies.

Selected customers: HAVAŞ, Oras Shipping, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and LCW.

March 2017 – July 2017 · Istanbul

Senior Project Manager · Ogoo Digital

Managed and led software and SharePoint projects for customers in different sectors. The role covered development-team management, customer relationships and delivery using waterfall and agile approaches.

Selected customers: Tadım, Domino’s and Airties.

May 2015 – January 2017 · Istanbul

Project Manager / Lead Software Developer · Gri Creative

Managed, led and contributed to numerous software and website projects, combining project responsibility with hands-on development leadership. Work primarily used Microsoft technologies and waterfall project management, with responsibility for the development team and customer relationships.

Selected customers: Hilton, Migros, Deniz Yatırım, Fibabanka, Fibaemeklilik, Katılımemeklilik, ISO, OSD, Koçfinans, EGM, Sepaş and Eltek.

2012 – May 2015 · Istanbul

Software Architect · Avikon

Managed and led numerous software and website projects across different technologies and customer sectors. Responsibilities included technical project delivery, managing the development team and maintaining customer relationships, primarily in a waterfall delivery environment.

Selected customers: İGDAŞ, Ford, Yudum Gıda and Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality.

2012 · Istanbul

Freelance project · Filika Tasarım collaboration

Designed and implemented three websites for Amerikan Hastanesi in collaboration with Filika Tasarım.

Technologies: C#, jQuery, .NET Framework 4.0 and SQL Server 2008.

July 2009 – December 2011 · Istanbul

Software Development Specialist · KoçSistem

Worked on enterprise applications supporting business operations, from leasing workflows to purchasing-system maintenance and sales activity tracking.

  • YapıKredi Leasing: implemented a web-based leasing application covering business processes for YapıKredi Bank, using C#, .NET Framework 3.5 and PL/SQL.
  • Otosan YTS: handled change requests and bugs for software used by Ford Otosan’s Gölcük Factory Purchasing Department, using C#, .NET Framework 2.0 and Toad.
  • SEK: designed and implemented a web-based Sales Activity Card application for the KoçSistem Sales Department, using C#, .NET Framework 3.5 and SQL Server 2005.

Summer 2008 · İzmir

Intern · Birim Information Technologies

Contributed to a project for automatically updating and maintaining delivered software products, using C#.

Experience across the delivery lifecycle

Across these roles, my responsibilities have included software implementation, architecture, project planning, team coordination, customer relationships, application security coordination and integration-focused product ownership.

The technical foundation helps me understand the detail of a proposed solution. The delivery and product experience helps me place that detail in context: priorities, dependencies, stakeholder expectations and the work needed to ship.