Anıl Can Baykal

Software engineer with production-proven experience in development of Mobile applications & backends on different platforms. Built small/mid sized software teams, managed using agile methods and delivered solid projects.

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Skills

Mobile
iOS (Good), Android (Competent)
Cloud
Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, Wmware
Backend
J2EE, tomcat, glassfish, jetty, dropwizard, Python, tornado
Data
Mysql, Google Bigquery, Google DataStore, Mongo

Experience

Öde Al

CTO/Co-founder Oct 2013 - Present

Co-founded and developed Turkey's first mobile payment platform, Ödeal İşyerim. Ödeal İşyerim allows registered businesses to accept credit card payments with the free app without having any hidden costs. Built the payment system using Google App Engine & Amazon Web Services and mvp mobile applications. Currently recruiting a small team and leading the development on iOS application

  • Startup Istanbul 2014 Finalist
  • LeWeb 2014 Startup Finalist
  • Received the highest first round investment in Turkey [http://webrazzi.com/2015/03/11/sanko-online-mobil-odeme-sistemi-odeal-yatirim/]

Mobilike / Nomad Commerce

Senior Software Developer/Co-founder May 2011 - Jun 2013

Joined Mobilike, one of the leading Mobile Advertising Company in Turkey, as the Lead Software Engineerfor they manage 80+ mobile applications developed by various 3rd parties.Coordinated the development/integration process and also developed an advertising and analytics SDK, Makina (later rebranded to 'seamless'). After working with many 3rd party applications, developed SaaS framework Handsome (similar to Parse) which solves common problems in mobile application development. A new company called `Nomad Commerce` was created which is focued on building Hansome backed-up mobile applications. Recruited and lead a small team of software developers who successfully developed two commercial applications (Yellow Medya and Cobone) on three platforms (iOS, Android, WinPhone) and a quiz application(Know now!) using Handsome framework

  • Makina ad framework -- later renamed to `seamless` [http://goseamless.com]
  • Know Now! quizz iOS app
  • Handsome Framework -- later open sourced under the name Lembas and as a commercial product Cortex [http://nomadcommerce.com/#cortex]
  • Yellow Pages Turkey iOS/Android app

Pozitron (acquired by Monetise in 2014)

Senior Software Developer Oct 2007 - May 2011

Hired as developer #2 at Pozitron and worked on the inhouse J2ME framework which -still- empowers İşCep, Bilyoner on low end devices. Developed server side development with a project that provisions and distribution of mobile applications to java based devices. Moved to iOS platform development in 2008 and published first mobile banking application IsCep . With the growth at Pozitron, became the Lead Developer in most the projects (Biletix, Bilyoner, Thy..) and continued developing for iOS (ProDG, Finanscep). Responsabilities also included recruting, software architecture for clients and inhouse framework research&evelopment.

  • İşCep iPhone app for Is Bankasi, Turkey's biggest bank
  • THY iPhone app for Turkish Airlines
  • Finanscep iPhone app for Finansbank
  • Biletix iPhone app for Ticketmaster Turkey
  • Bilyoner iPhone app for Bilyoner, Turkey's biggest betting site
  • ProDG iPhone app for GlaxoSmithKline Turkey

Sednacom

Software Engineer Jan 2007 - Oct 2007

Started as an intern at Sednacom and became a junior software developer. Worked with Python and contributed to ongoing TinyERP (Odoo) projects by developing submodules for different clients.

Freelance Works

Jan 2008 - Present

Over the years, I have work on many successful project as a freelance contractor

  • Karnaval iPad App [https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/karnaval-radyo-for-ipad/id600703134?mt=8]
  • Quiet Riots iPhone App [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiet-riots/id850522667?ls=1&mt=8]
  • Campaign TR iPad App [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/campaigntr/id492593453?mt=8]

Education

Bogaziçi Üniversitesi

Sep 2012 - Present
Master - SoftwareEngineering

Universite Bordeaux 1

Sep 2006 - May 2007
Master - Computer Science /Parallel Systems

Universite Bordeaux 1

Sep 2005 - May 2006
Undergrad - Informatique

Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis

Sep 2002 - May 2005
Undergrad - Applied Math/Informatique

Lycee Galatasaray

Sep 1993 - May 2001
High-school

Awards

Applications and Interactive Media/Sales Category
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International Business Awards 2011

ProdDG iPad application used by GlaxoSmithKline Turkey

Publications

Happy-download
Anil Can Baykal
2011-10-01

Multi threaded file download with ASIHTTPRequest

Lembas Mobile Framework
Anil Can Baykal
2013-01-01

A mobile framework to easily build iOS/Android applications with server and client libraries

Languages

Turkish
Native speaker
English
Fluent
French
Fluent

References

— Fatih İşbecer (CEO at Pozitron)
— Ali Abhary (CEO at Karnaval)
— Şekip Can Gökalp (Managing partner at Mobilike)
— Umut Gökçen (Manager at Nomad Commerce)
— Fevzi Güngör (CEO/Co-founder at OdeAl)