Experience · 2011 — 2026

One of Turkey's most experienced software engineers — Yavuz Ayhan Önder's track record of shipping production systems at scale.

Founder of Didivor Teknoloji — one of Turkey's leading custom software firms. Hands-on engineering and architecture across fintech, defense, telco and enterprise SaaS — from greenfield platforms to high-stakes legacy migrations. 15+ years, 30+ production systems, 120M+ end users.

15+ yrs
production exp.
●●● didivor.com / about / career CV

Career Overview

2011 — 2026 · Istanbul / EMEA
Active
Years
15+
scaling
Systems
30+
production
End users
120M+
served
Seniority · 15y
scopeimpact
Sr. Full Stack · Founder
Didivor · 2019 — present
team of 10 active
Principal Engineer
BSS / Telco · 2016 — 2019
38M subs delivered
Senior Backend
Capital markets · 2013 — 2016
low-latency delivered
120M+
end users

Sr. Full Stack Developer · Founder

Feb 2019 — Present
Didivor Teknoloji Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
  • Founded and lead an engineering team of 10 delivering custom software for fintech, defense and energy clients.
  • Architected a multi-tenant platform serving 4.2B+ monthly events with 99.99% uptime SLOs.
  • Owned the technical strategy: stack selection, hiring bar, code review culture and security posture (ISO 27001, KVKK, GDPR).
  • Shipped 11 production systems in 24 months — including core banking, payment switch and trading terminals.
  • Drove p99 latency down to < 80 ms across critical APIs through caching, async pipelines and query tuning.
  • Established CI/CD on GitOps with policy-as-code, cutting deploy lead time from days to under 12 minutes.

Principal Software Engineer

May 2016 — Jan 2019
Enterprise Platform Engineering · Contract
  • Led the rewrite of a convergent BSS billing core from a monolith to event-sourced microservices on Kafka.
  • Migrated 38M telecom subscribers over 6 rolling waves with zero data loss and dual-stack reconciliation.
  • Designed an EV charging orchestrator (OCPP 2.0.1) for 4,800+ stations, reducing peak grid load by 18%.
  • Mentored 8 senior engineers; introduced trunk-based development, ADRs and platform SRE practices.
  • Authored the internal architecture playbook adopted across 4 squads.

Senior Backend Engineer

2013 — 2016
Product Engineering · Full-time
  • Built low-latency order-routing services in Go and C++ powering a regional capital-markets venue.
  • Cut order-book replay time by 33× with a deterministic event-sourced redesign.
  • Owned observability: SLOs, distributed tracing, structured logging — incident MTTR dropped 61%.
  • Coached 3 engineers from mid to senior; ran the bi-weekly architecture review forum.

Full Stack Engineer

2011 — 2013
SaaS & Consultancy
  • Delivered 20+ production web applications across e-commerce, logistics and healthtech verticals.
  • Built reusable component libraries and design systems adopted by 6 client teams.
  • Set up the first DevOps pipelines (Docker, K8s, Terraform) for clients moving off bare-metal hosting.
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