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Sami Kuzey

Fullstack Developer & Agile Tech Lead & Entrepreneur
Pragmatic programmer with over 15 years of experience mainly with Java and Python stack. Led various teams sizing up to 20+ members and delivered many mission critical projects. Highly skilled at Peopleware, Software Development Lifecycle, Project Management, Agile Development, Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Programming, Java and Python technologies. Also have entrepreneurship experience with some attempts to build startups.
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Work Experience

Self Employed

Amazon Seller
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Aug 2017 - Current

Selling private label product(s) on Amazon

Self Employed

Software Contractor
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Nov 2016 - Current
  • Software consultant and also developing "employee portal" for Securitas Turkey, using .Net

Kodstar

CEO
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Jan 2016 - Oct 2016

Kodstar is a web based solution to learning to code (like codeschool, teamtreehouse, codeacademy etc.). The product required solving out-of-ordinary problems, like running code in the browser and evaluating code semantically and was quite complex. It is built on all kinds of state-of-the art techs from micro-services to cloud. We completed the software, produced most of the education content, started beta tests, then we had to stop because of the political atmosphere in Turkey.

  • Set and communicated a unified vision and culture
  • Recruited talent and make sure the right people are in the right seats
  • Helped architecting the product using Java, Play framework, Python, AngularJS
  • Managed and contributed to coding, marketing, content production, customer building
  • Seeked investment

CENTRE FOR ASSESTMENT, SELECTION AND PLACEMENT, ÖSYM

Head of Software Development
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Apr 2012 - Jan 2016

ÖSYM is one of the most critical corporations of Turkey that seriously effects lives of millions. The company was inefficient with several decades old tech. They often hit the headlines negatively. I hired 20+ people including developers, testers, analysts, designers and organized into teams. We developed more than a dozen projects and successfully shipped all of them. In 4 years, we replaced 6 old softwares, introduced 7 new ones.

  • Hired and led 20+ people to development of a dozen projects, using agile methods
  • Solved unusual problems such as; automated publishing using latex, securing the questions with bank-level standarts
  • Fullstack development using Java, Spring, Hibernate, AngularJS

FDNSOFT

CTO
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Aug 2010 - Jan 2012

Started the company from scratch together with owners and built a "health care management system" for hospitals. We finished this "crazy complex" product (which many other companies failed to finish) with huge success and deployed to a public hospital in one year; within a fraction of expected cost and time.

  • Recruited talent, set the culture and led development of Health Care Management System, using Agile methods
  • Full stack development using Java, Hibernate, Swing

CODEERA SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Founder
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Oct 2009 - Jul 2010

Started up sahacini.com, an online reservation system for private soccer fields (1+ billion dollar market) and a social network for players. Although we didn't fail, I stopped because of lack of co-founders and investment.

  • Coded and started up sahacini.com
  • Developed “TR-069 Configuration Server " for Turk Telekom, with which they can manage millions of customer devices, such as ADSL modems and IPTV STB’s

OYTEK

Freelance Consultant
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May 2009 - Oct 2009

One of the main contractors of Turkish army. I was hired to help them bootstrap building a critical product.

  • Helped jump start NBC (nuclear biologic chemical) command and control center project.
  • Coded most of the underlying infrastructure using Java and related frameworks
  • Mentored the team about code quality, Java tech and Agile methods

THE CENTRAL UNION OF THE AGRICULTURAL CREDIT COOPERATIVES OF TURKEY

Agile Practice Lead
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May 2006 - May 2009

The corporation needed an ERP solution to manage its 1900+ associations. I co-led 14 people to development of the product using Java, Hibernate, Spring and JSF. We successfully finished the product and received high praise from the top management for improving the efficiency of the company. We were among the first to successfully enable agile in a big project in Turkey.

  • Introduced ExtremeProgramming to the company, training/adopting developers about XP and practices
  • Co-lead the team; solving team problems, helping developers, managing/planning iterations
  • Co-developed an in-house framework
  • Co-designed architecture of the system
  • Developed peruse JSF/Facelets components
  • Developed Fit/Fitnesse fixtures; both test and base fixtures
  • Developed modules with team

Havelsan

Senior Software Engineer
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2004 - 2006

Havelsan is the biggest software company of Turkey, mainly working for the army or government. I was a member of the architecture team within -billion dollar- "Air Force Command and Control Information System" project. The software was being developed for Turkish Air Force to help them manage war and peace time. There were hundreds of people working in the project. Me and another coworker developed an async database replication system, to effectively deliver time critical data (such as real-time radar data) to requiring units across the country.

  • Development of an Asynchronous Replication Manager for real-time distributed database requirements, using Java

Cybersoft

Software Engineer
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2002 - 2004

Cybersoft is a custom software shop with $100+ million revenue. This is the first company I joined after graduation as a member of VEDOP (Tax Administration System) for ministry of finance, a project with hundreds of developers and hundreds of millions dollars budget. It was a project with stellar success and I learned a lot during my time in this company. I realize now that I was given very critical responsibilities uncommon for a junior developer.

  • Single handedly maintained the core of the project, 100K+ lines of C++ infrastructure code
  • Developed several business modules using C++