Fatih Mehmet Ucar

Highly versatile and result-oriented Technical Lead & Architect using agile practices to deliver high quality, resilient, reliable and scalable solutions to complex problems by leveraging technology within tight budgets & time.
15+ years of industry experience with leadership, coaching, architecture, development and DevOps in Agile environments within Finance, E-commerce, Media and Aviation sectors. Seeking Tech Lead/Architect role in finance.

Client summary: BSkyBExpediaBSkyBD&G InsuranceMediasmiths International Ltd.CiscoDiscovery Education Ltd.Garanti Bank and InsuranceTAV AirportHavelsanHavelsan

Experience:

BSkyB (November 2015 - July 2016)

Mentored the team for Docker Compose, Docker, micro services, Agile Scrum, Kanban, TDD & BDD
Involved in creation, solution design & prioritization of technical tasks depending on the customer needs
Mentored the team for integration of third party applications to the new transformation project.
Involved in solution design & development of new application which was set to be the source of truth for all metadata for all content in BSkyB database.
Involved in creation of code based Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automating build & deployment
Deployed & maintained micro services on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Agile Scrum, Kanban, AWS, ActiveMQ, Bash Scripting, BDD, Cucumber, Docker, DockerCompose, Dropwizard, ELK, Git, Git Flow, Java8, JAX-RS, Jenkins, Kubernetees, Mule, Maven, Micro Services, Mulesoft, Pair Programming, Spring, Springboot, REST, Swagger, TDD

Expedia (November 2014 - November 2015)

Performed code review and quality checks before changes go live.
Involved in design & development of Shopping & Property Detail apps where all property searching and bookings happen.
Involved in re-branding, parameterization and integration of those applications so that they can be used for multiple brands by Expedia with a new configuration framework lowering the setup time to 1 day for a new brand.
Mentored usage of Docker for running integration tests as part of pipeline to make sure the environment is as close as to a production environment.
Agile Scrum, Java8, Bamboo, Bash, BDD, Cassandra, Cucumber, Docker, Git, Git Flow, Jersey, JAX-RS, JUnit, Maven, Mockito, REST, TDD, Stash, TestNG

BSkyB (October 2012 - November 2014)

Involved in design & development of device concurrency management software that is used by all BSkyB services to manage multiple streaming devices & management of user devices.
Involved in design & architecture of NowTV backend API with micro services
Involved in solving problems of extremely high load & availability issues using NOSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB) databases and caching (Hazelcast).
Involved in creation & maintenance of CI/CD Jenkins pipelines
Involved in deployment & maintenance of micro services on AWS
Agile Scrum, Java7, AWS, Scala, Groovy, Bash, AWS, Spray, TDD, BDD, Cassandra, Cucumber, Docker, Dropwizard, ELK, Guice3, Pair Programming, Dropwizard, Git, Hazelcast, JAX-RS, Jenkins, Jersey, JUnit, Spock, JUnit, Micro Services, Maven, Gradle, MongoDB, REST, Vagrant

D&G Insurance (October 2011 - September 2012)

Performed code reviews and mentored development team for Spring, REST & Agile
Involved in improvement of software development process so that it is agile & efficient.
Involved in integration of third party services for creating policy quotation & actual policies.
Agile Scrum, Spring3, JUnit, Mockito, TDD, BDD, Spring Security 3.1, Maven, WAS7, DB2, SOAP, JAX-WS, REST, JAX-RS

Mediasmiths International Ltd. (May 2011 - September 2011)

Involved in decision making of right technology for the project
Involved in design & integration of third party SOAP & REST services
Mentored team members about the technologies used like Spring, Vaadin, JAX-RS
Agile Scrum, TDD, BDD, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, Spring3, Vaadin, Maven, Tomcat, Hudson, MySQL, JAXB, XML, JSON, JAX-RS, Apache FTP Server

Cisco (August 2010 - March 2011)

Involved in decision making of right technologies & frameworks used
Involved in design & integration of third party SOAP & REST services
Mentored team member about REST & Agile Methodologies
Agile Scrum, TDD, BDD, Mockito, JUnit, Spring3, Hibernate3, Eh-Cache, Lucene, Maven, JBoss RestEasy, JAX-RS, Vaadin 6, SOAP, JAX-WS, JAXB, JSON, RMI

Discovery Education Ltd. (August 2008 - June 2010)

Involved in design & development of online education software that is used by over 10,000 primary schools in UK.
Mentored team members for Spring framework and lead the transformation of project.
Worked on several performance improvements as well as refactoring and automated testing.
Java5, Spring 2.5, Hibernate3, Struts2, Maven, Hudson, Lucene, Jira, MySQL, Tomcat 6,JDBC, XA Transactions, Javascript, TDD

Garanti Bank and Insurance (December 2006 - April 2008)

Mentored team members for Java & Spring framework
Involved in design & implementation of online insurance branch which is used by the customer representatives of the company and customers to create quotations, buy policies and make claims.
Worked on integration of CICS mainframes to access customer related information
Worked on real time FX feeds to do conversions for buy & sell transaction done by the customers via online branch.
J2EE, Java5, Spring 2.5, Hibernate 3, Struts, JSP, WAS6, Oracle, DB2, CICS, XML

TAV Airport (August 2005 - December 2006)

Involved in design & development of TAMS (Total Airport Management Software) for managing all operational tasks at the airport which is integrated to over 30 different systems.
J2EE, Java5, Swing, JSF, Apache MyFaces, IceFaces, Hibernate, JBoss Drools, iReports, Ajax, XSD, XML, WAS6, JUnit, Oracle, Velocity, JDBC, IBM MQ

Havelsan (May 2004 - August 2004)

Implemented a XML parser for memory limited devices
J2EE, Java, XML

Havelsan (May 2003 - August 2003)

Worked HVBS project for Turkish Air force
J2EE, Java, XML

Qualifications

Computer Science Bsc, Bilkent University
SCJP 6 Certified Java Developer
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2019

Solutions Architect