About

Merve Tüysüz

A result-driven, customer-focused, articulate and analytical software developer

8+ years of hand-on experience in designing, developing, testing, maintaining, debugging software for over 10 million users

good understanding of software development life cycle and agile methodologies

good interpersonal skills & good command of English

[email protected] • +90 (536) 6512765 • Istanbul, Turkey

Skills

Experienced

JavaScript (ES6), TypeScript, Angular 8, ngRx, React, HTML5, CSS3 (Scss, BEM), Git, C#, .Net Framework, MS SQL Server, T-SQL, JIRA, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, Bootstrap, Magento 2, Craft CMS

Working Knowledge

Ruby on Rails, Ruby, ASP.NET Core

Experience

Frontend Architect - Migros, Jul 2019 - still working

NEXT (Migros Transformation Project): The transformation project of Migros, the biggest retail supermarket chain Turkey, which aims to re-engineer all internal tools using cutting edge technology, establish QA and CI/CD practices and mentor all departments about the improved infrastructure.

Stack: Angular 8, CSS3 (Sass, BEM, flex), HTML5, Nrwl Nx, Azure DevOps, Docker, JIRA, Sketch

Working as the front-end architect in this transformation process with a team consisting of 2 Backend Developers (Java Spring), 1 DevOps Engineer (Azure DevOps), 1 QA Engineer, 1 other Frontend Developer and 1 UI/UX Designer.
Participating in all decision-making processes which includes the database design, tooling, deployment processes etc.
Making use of monorepo pattern since there are advantages of re-usability and dependency management by utilizing Nrwl Nx monorepo tool.
Mentoring the teams about Angular and any other technology which is chosen for a specific problem and make their transition easy from Oracle Forms.
Transforming all the existing applications one by one and transfer the project to designated teams.
Writing tests using Jest and Cypress.
Establishing CI/CD processes on Azure DevOps with the DevOps Engineer.
Transforming the department teams to dev-ops teams with developers, product owners, designers and dev-ops engineers.
In three months, 4 applications were delivered:

Migros Authorization & Operator: These two SPAs are authorization infrastructure for all applications (SPA, SSR, Native) and micro services which are going to be re-engineered during the process. In this web application, developers can create an application or service to get client id/secrets as well as users, permissions and groups. These are going to be used by other applications to control authorization. This is mainly a CRUD SPA for these entities. Operator is a similar app with smaller set of operations which includes users, groups and user groups and it is used daily by operation staff.
Migros Profile: This application is for individual Migros employees where they can view/edit their info and see their authorized applications as well as logs like latest login etc.
Migros Projects: This is the portal where all IT department can view the ongoing projects and their status. This application is designed to use JIRA's APIs to calculate the completeness of a project.

Senior Software Developer - Brew Interactive, Jun 2017 - April 2019

Food Service Direct (in collaboration with Unilever USA): A responsive e-commerce website for Unilver which operates in the USA. It is generated as Magento Commerce website and for customer interaction, it utilizes React as a library.

Stack: Magento, PHP, React, Redux, CSS (Sass, BEM), HTML5, Magento Cloud, Docker (for development), JIRA, InVision

Working as the senior full stack developer with a team consisting of 2 UI/UX Designers, 1 Frontend Developer and 3 Backend Developers.
Gathering user requirements both from the customer representatives and the project managers in Brew.
Attending daily scrum meeting calls with the customer.
Creating user stories and technical tasks according to the requirements and distributing to the team depending on skills. Mentoring junior developers as well as acting as a bridge between Unilever team and the development team.
Responsible for integration, staging and production environments as well as deploys.
Frontend development using React as a library and Redux as a state pattern which utilizes Magento REST API.
Responsible for checkout process which includes PayPal, Apple and online credit card payments.
Backend development using PHP. Developing custom APIs as an extension to Magento's built-in REST API.

Mobilet (in collaboration with Doğuş Technology & Pozitif): A ticketing platform for Pozitif (an entertainment company in Turkey) which is operating in Turkey.

Stack: Angular 6 (latest at that time), CSS (Sass, BEM), HTML5, Bitbucket (later Azure), JIRA, InVision

Working as a senior front-end developer with two UI/UX Designers and 1 HTML/CSS Developer, 2 junior Frontend Developers and 1 other Frontend Developer in collaboration with a back-end team from Doğuş Technology (a tech company in Turkey).
Gathering requirements, creating user stories and tasks and distributing across the team.
Frontend development using Angular especially focused on services, component interaction and state management.
Managing applications on Bitbucket with test and staging environments (automatic builds) which is integrated with JIRA where every commit has a reference to its own task.
During the project 4 enterprise applications were delivered, all of which is developed with Angular 6 and consumes REST APIs developed with C#.
Mobilet Back Office: Used by the Pozitif employees for creating new events, venues, artists, seating arrangements as well as ticket categories and profiles. It consumes the REST APIs for CRUD operations.
Mobilet Box Office: Used by the box office for selling tickets to customers. The SPA consumes REST APIs to list events and choose seats as well as getting the customer info. It has a shell application which is integrated with POS and consumes its APIs for the checkout process.
Mobilet Kiosk: Used by the customers for self-service experience. It works on a kiosk which runs a Chromium browser. It is integrated with a POS for checkout process.
Mobilet CMS: Used by the Pozitif employees to enter content for the Pozitif Blog.

Software Developer - Softtech, Jan 2011 - Jun 2016

Part of the Telephone and Mobile Banking Branch Team which consists of 9 full-stack developers, 1 business analyst and 2 product owners. Responsible for mobile and telephone branches of Is Bank which is used by 10 and 2 million of people respectively.

İşCep (in collaboration with Turkiye Is Bank): Mobile banking application for Is Bank which has a wide operation set ranging from money transfer to paying for taxes

Stack: C#, .NET, SQL Server, T-SQL, ClearCase, ClearQuest

Back-end development in C#/.NET to build a monolithic service to serve both IsCep and the IVR system.

IVR (in collaboration with Turkiye Is Bank): Interactive Voice Response is the telephone banking branch of Is Bank. It consumes a backend service and utilizes JavaScript for client-side operations.

Stack: JavaScript, C#, Geneys Platform

Working as the lead developer for this project with 1-2 junior developers.

Junior Software Developer - Stramax, Feb 2010 - Dec 2010

IVR (in collaboration with NCR and Turkiye Is Bank): The telephone banking branch of Is Bank.

Stack: JavaScript, C#, Geneys Platform IVR

IVR development using Genesys platform and JavaScript
Backend development using C#

Education

Istanbul University, 2015 - still studying

Sociology, BSc - Faculty of Open and Distance Education

Yıldız Technical University, 2004 - 2009

Mathematical Engineering, BSc

Kabataş High School, 2001 - 2004

Interests

Rock, bicycling, trekking/hiking, camping, permaculture, cooking, cognitive science

References

Available upon request.

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