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Ahmed Yılmaz

Staff Software Engineer


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About Me

Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, test automation, and internal platform development. Experienced in building test automation solutions alongside broader quality systems and developer tooling. Currently focused on privacy engineering, developer experience, and internal platform tooling; building distributed systems and AI-assisted developer tools that integrate deeply into engineering workflows.

Experience

Udemy

Staff Software Engineer

• Redesigned and refactored user and organization anonymization processes under GDPR RTBF.

• Built a distributed, event-driven DSAR platform to automate data subject requests across services.

• Created an internal tool to map and visualize service integrations for faster impact analysis.

• Delivered an LLM-assisted tool that lets developers generate and run end-to-end tests locally.

• Improved internal admin tooling to reduce manual intervention and increase operational safety.

Udemy

Senior Software Engineer

• Developed end-to-end web UI test automation frameworks for the central quality infrastructure.

• Created a quality monitoring tool aggregating Jira/GitHub data into actionable metrics.

• Integrated consumer-driven contract testing across services.

• Managed manual test projects supporting product teams.

Allianz Türkiye

Software Test Automation Engineer

• Contributed to the core architecture team refactoring and reviewing automation projects with 30+ engineers.

• Set up distributed service virtualization infrastructure.

TesterYou

Software Development Engineer in Test Team Lead

• Designed web, mobile, and API test automation architectures for multiple customers.

• Developed performance and load testing strategies and led automation processes.

• Provided trainings (ISTQB, AAQ, advanced automation, clean code, TDD/BDD) and shared know-how via podcasts, blogs, and workshops.

KoçDigital

Quality Lead

• Led and mentored manual and automation engineers as a consultant.

• Established E2E web UI and API automation frameworks.

• Defined quality metrics and provided consultancy to improve product quality.

Innova Software Solutions

Software Development Engineer in Test

• Developed web service integration automation using Java BDD and Cucumber for high-traffic telecom projects.

• Implemented end-to-end UI automation with CodeceptJS and performance testing with JMeter.

• Applied TDD, BDD, and pair programming in agile teams.

Siu Digital Tech. Inc.

Software Developer Intern

Built a web application for designing personal business cards.

Innova Software Solutions

Software Support Specialist

Supported software operations and troubleshooting for internal projects.

Innova Software Solutions

Intern

Manual testing and test case creation for telecom projects.

Education

Karabuk University

January 2017

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Fit Startup Factory - Istanbul

January 2014

Business Model Development Program

Projects

Airdrum

Senior Project(2017)

Play drums anywhere without drum set, on air.

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Various Mobile Game Projects

Skills/Technologies

Awards

T-Hackathon

3rd Place (2015)

METU Technopolis

RFID-based next generation barcode solution project; prototype developed with Arduino.

Vestel Innovative Case

Finalist (2014)

Vestel

Advanced to finals; delivered marketing and advertising campaign concepts to improve employer brand value.

Mastercard Innovation Challenge Turkey

Finalist (2014)

Fit Startup Factory

Social calendar mobile app; completed 5-week accelerated program on business model development.

Certificates

Oracle Academy

2016

Database Design and Programming with SQL

KOSGEB

2015

Practical Entrepreneurship Course Certificate

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