Mustafa Demir

Mustafa Demir is the VP of Engineering at Toolio, a cloud-based merchandising platform for retailers. Here are some key details about his background and career:

Education and Early Career

Mustafa holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.12 He began his career as a Software Engineer at Koc Bilgi ve Savunma Teknolojileri A.S. from 2005 to 2008, where he worked on large-scale military projects using Java/J2EE technologies.2

Experience at Udemy

Prior to joining Toolio, Mustafa had a long and successful career at Udemy:

• He was one of the founding engineers at Udemy, joining in April 2011.2
• Over his 11-year tenure, he rose to become Country Manager & Sr. Director of Engineering for Udemy's Turkey office.2
• He helped scale Udemy's Turkey office from 1 to over 100 employees across all functions.2
• As an engineering leader, he was responsible for payments architecture, search infrastructure, and collaborative filtering modules.2

Current Role at Toolio

Mustafa joined Toolio as VP of Engineering in February 2022.12 In this role, he:

• Leads the engineering organization, which is distributed globally.3
• Aims to leverage his experience from Udemy to help grow Toolio's engineering team and culture.3
• Is actively involved in recruiting and expanding the engineering team.3

Personal

Mustafa describes himself as a "Tech company lead and a dad".2 He is passionate about startups and was drawn to Toolio's mission and the opportunity to work in a new domain after his long tenure at Udemy.3