Devrim Aksakal
IT Professional
Application Modernization
Digital transformation utilizing big data, analytics, cloud, microservices, modern DevOps and PaaS-based development.
Systems Integration
Custom Software Development
Solutions for business problems through reusable, extendable, future facing technical solutions. 
IT Management
Building diverse development teams for exploiting big data, reactive programming and microservices. On time, on budget project/program delivery.
Innovative solutions for complex systems integration problems via process and data integration.
ABOUT ME

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Devrim has been an IT professional for over 20 years and held various systems engineering, architectural and IT leadership positions. He has built, supported and managed large-scale client-facing application infrastructures. Devrim has collaborated with business stake holders to build efficient application infrastructures that are aligned with business requirements. He has utilized proven methodologies and delivery models to deliver highly available, redundant and elastic application infrastructures. Devrim's direct contributions in the areas of Prime Brokerage, Trade Finance and Regulatory Compliance has lead to increased profitability to organizations.

For the last 15 years Devrim has worked in financial services information technology, holding various IT leadership positions at Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers. His background is primarily in:     
           
  • Global Markets
  • High throughput/low latency trading systems
  • Large-scale trade & cash processing applications
  • Regulatory Compliance applications
  • Global Capital Markets; DCM Bond Origination & GEM IPO process automation

His focus included systems integration, modernization with end-to-end architecture, implementation and support. Devrim has engineering and management experience in server technologies, high performant algorithms design & implementation, virtualization, containerization and hosting. At Deutsche Bank Devrim has also led an application modernization team responsible for transitioning a monolithic compliance application to a modern micro service architecture utilizing Domain Driven Design.  This resulted in the first containerized DevOps deployment within the bank.

Devrim has also done work in the domains of Health Informatics and Transportation Information Systems.
    
   
  
STRENGTHS​  

  • Strong Technology background and experience with interest in working  on

  • MicroServices
  • SMACK Architecture
  • Reactive System Design
  • Model Driven Design
  • Elastic Architectures
  • Horizontal scalability
  • Eventual consistency
  • CQRS
  • Event Sourcing
  • Automated Devops / Containerization / Docker / RunC / Kubernetes / OpenShift / OpenStack
  • Event and Model Driven Architectures, Concurrent Lock-Free, High Throughput / Highly Distributed Algorithms.

  • I am more motivated when I utilize my time and energy for solving business problem by providing reusable, extendable, future facing technical solutions.



WEAKNESSES

  • I have no interest in the last 15 years’ technologies (J2EE, Spring & etc).I would like to focus and work on next 15 years’ technologies that will meet the current and future demands.

  • I am very discouraged by sugar coating and providing a rubber band to problems in favor of getting political gains / promotions and pushing the bucket down the road.

  • I am more comfortable when the conversation is around “facts” not “would have, should have”.

  • I intend to roll the sleeves, get involve and ask question beyond what's in excel sheet and power point presentation. Managing a technology group/organization strictly from an excel sheet and/or power point presentation would constitute a weakness for me.
    

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EXPERIENCE
  1. 2016 - Present
    Xscale, Inc
    Technical Architect, Advisor
  2. 2007 - Present
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Lead Technology Manager
  3. 2005 - 2007
    Lehman Brother
    Senior Software Engineer
  4. 2007 - Present
    Deutsche Bank AG
    Vice President – Lead Technology Manager
  5. 2004 - 2005
    CSI - Banktrade/Tradepaq Corporation
    Software Engineer
  6. 2003 - 2004
    Statlinx Corporation
    Software Engineer
  7. > 2003
    Further Employment History Is Available Upon Request
  1. Baruch College -City University of New York
    Certificate in Computer Programming
    New York, NY
  2. Pace University Graduate School of Computer Science and Information Systems
    Master of Science in Computer Science
    New York, NY
  3. Hacettepe University - School Of Engineering
    Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering
    Turkey
EDUCATION

  1. It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people, so they can tell us what to do.

    - Steve Jobs

  2. "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."

    A. Einstein

FOCUS & INTEREST AREAS
  1. Microservices
    Microservices
  2. DDD-Domain Driven Design
    DDD-Domain Driven Design
  3. Big Data
    Big Data
  4. CQRS - Command/Query Responsibility Segregation
    CQRS - Command/Query Responsibility Segregation
  5. Event Sourcing
    Event Sourcing
  6. MDA - Model Driven Architecture
    MDA - Model Driven Architecture
  7. Reactive Programming
    Reactive Programming
  8. Containerization
    Containerization
  9. EDA - Event Driven Architectures
    EDA - Event Driven Architectures
  10. Systems Integration
    Systems Integration
  11. Application Modernization
    Application Modernization
  12. Linear / Constraint Programming
    Linear / Constraint Programming
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