Y Combinator

University of South Florida

Bilkent University

Product at FreightHub

xPay

Angel Investor

Polo (YC W23)

Berry (YC W23)

Flagright arms financial institutions with the best-in-class technology to combat financial crime and meet AML compliance regulations with an AI-native, no-code platform. Our API-first approach allows for rapid integration, typically within a week, which drastically undercuts the industry standard of 2-4 months. Flagright's comprehensive product suite includes real-time transaction monitoring, customer risk scoring, case management, and aml screening among other industry-leading features. Unique to the market, our AI Forensics module equips fincrime fighters with an immersive investigative experience that drives vigilance and operational efficiency in financial crime prevention efforts.

Flagright

Co-Founder & CEO

Women Go Tech

Mentor

Leading the consumer (B2C) & SMB (B2B) products and serving 3m users globally. My team looks after apps - user-facing platforms, fraud, compliance, core banking, pricing, and back office domains.

• Drive product strategy and product  roadmap in alignment with the best user experience, constraints, and commercial needs
• Foster a culture of T-shaped focus to align vision with attention to detail across all Product initiatives
• Oversee Product Team performance and ensure cross-team alignment
• Within the first 7 months, delivered 4 monthly transaction volume records in the company's 8-year history
• Grew B2B segment monthly revenue by 30+% at 0 (zero) CPA within the 1st quarter of taking it over
• Launched Turkey as the first new market outside Europe where users could sign up and send money from upon taking up the project after 6 months of delay, delivered in 4 months end-to-end
• Built a hall of fame Product Management Team from scratch by attracting the best  talent from the likes of Atlassian, Nubank, Delivery Hero, Trafi
• Launched wallet as a money storage utility for users to realize speed and price benefits on each transaction

TransferGo

Director of Product - Apps & Platform

• P&L owner and product manager for TransferGo for Business
• Built a formidable, high throughput team  with engineers and designers who cared about the users and their problems
• Fraud prevention, risk management & monitoring
• Consumer credit & risk modeling
• eWallet & core banking

Senior Product Manager - Compliance & Fincrime

Led booking experience including pricing/monetization, network management, and real-time quotation. 

User Experience Owner of Air Freight Vertical.

• Built a dynamic pricing product in Ocean Freight on top of the real-time quotation engine; a first in the industry in collaboration with Maersk, world’s largest ocean carrier. Generated solid traction and attracted new customers in the target segment via multi-channel marketing.
• Scaled the Air Freight product ~400% in quarterly revenue alongside the business stakeholders within a year as Air Freight Product Owner.
• Fostered a high-output team culture by building a transparent & driven working environment and applying the best Scrum and Kanban practices.
• Increased the auto-quotation speed 100+% via a multitude of system optimizations while delivering great user experience.
• Created, groomed, and owned the product backlog, carried out daily product owner duties.
• Supported Microservice architecture design and contributed engineering ideation with customer-centric thinking.
• Sourced, implemented, and optimized a self-service customer onboarding solution on the B2B user-facing platform and cut sales onboarding time by about 80% within 2 months.
• Defined ownership areas and improved org structure for Product and Tech Teams by proactively identifying problems and starting ideation with Tech Leadership. Interviewed and hired the best talent.
• Contributed to organizational goals through Series B ($30M) by boosting the Gross Margin and topline figures.

Logistics, freight forwarding

Forto

Senior Product Manager

Attempted to build your AI-powered travel companion, Audiotap, as a weekend project. Used technologies like text-to-speech synthesis and image recognition. Experimented with Java, Google Cloud/AI, NodeJS, and React Native.

Got $20K credit from Google Startups. Terminated after a year on a self-imposed deadline based on some success metrics. Had a great experience with some learnings:

- Focus is key! it's challenging to navigate the errands of running a business with accounting, business development, hiring, legal, etc. while having a full-time job that I also enjoyed. 
- Design thinking works! Go to potential users as early as possible before you build.

Check out the retired website at https://audiotap.herokuapp.com/, the working app is unpublished and available in prototype on-demand.

Animated promo of the MMP: https://youtu.be/pdxWRSS65mQ

Audiotap

Built scalable data tools to solve real-time business monitoring & process analytics problems.

• Scrum product co-owner for real-time business monitoring and analytics solutions with built-in anomaly detection capabilities using Python, Kafka, Flink, and React.
• Groomed the product backlog, create epics/user stories, optimize use cases via user research, clarify functionality/usability/design for the stakeholders and the development team and defined priorities.
• Led the development and enhancement of the real-time sales monitoring tool and owned 80% of daily unique users for the whole platform as of November 2018; drove usage via multiple marketing channels.

Zalando SE

Product Manager

•	Drove product enhancement ideation, value proposition, and Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy with the Profit & Loss (P&L) owners for Retail, Telesales, and Media & Creative product lines with $80M in combined revenue. Aligned vision and 5-year-strategy for each product line.
•	Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, led the Financial Systems vetting process with multiple global vendors (Oracle, SAP, and more); conducted vendor management role on a daily basis.
•	Took end-to-end ownership of the vendor evaluation process from both technical and business aspects; governed the stage-gate process.
•	Facilitated and drove conversations with internal & external solution consultants, identified granular business requirements, walked candidate providers through the specifics, and mapped the vendor capabilities to requirements.
•	Drove product vision, enhancement ideation, value proposition, and Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy with the Profit & Loss (P&L) owners for Retail, Telesales, and Media & Creative product lines with $80M in combined revenue.
•	Rolled out a time tracking software for 500 employees.
•	Led process design, improvement, and standardization to increase the efficiency of cross-functional teams by adopting industry best practices and Lean methodologies.
•	Acting as a product specialist for Retail and Call Center services, identified improvement opportunities, performed requirements analysis, and provided visibility for technical teams to understand/remedy pain points.

Florida Blue

•	As a project manager and lead analyst, implemented Microsoft O365 Cloud Suite for an internally-incubated startup, GuideWell Connect. Working with a team of more than 10 engineers and with the support of Microsoft consultants and Legal & Compliance resources, the project was deployed within less than 8 months with a limited operational budget.

Baran Ozkan, CAMS