The Story
I have been the CIO on the other side of the table.
That changes everything.
I started as a software engineer and spent three decades working my way to the
top of banking technology — not through management ladders, but by building things
that actually worked. Core banking systems. Digital platforms. Engineering organisations.
All from scratch, all at scale, all in highly regulated European and international markets.
At Nexent Bank I spent 17 years as Global Head of IT and CIO, leading 200+ engineers
across 10 entities through one of the most ambitious technology transformations in
European banking — migrating legacy cores to cloud-native platforms, rolling out
AI-native tooling, and building a DevSecOps culture that compressed deployment cycles
from months to daily releases.
Before that, I founded IBTECH — the fintech company that became the
technology backbone of one of Turkey's largest banks — and successfully exited through
integration into QNB. I know what it means to build for scale, and to build to last.
Now I am bringing that operator perspective to the platform and advisory side of the
industry — helping banking technology companies translate their product vision into
commercial reality, and helping banks navigate what comes next.
