Summary
Mehmet Tütüncü is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in backend systems on the JVM and a strong track record of transforming legacy architectures into scalable microservices. He has led teams and projects across fintech, e-commerce, and platform engineering—most recently guiding store enablement and platform initiatives at bol while previously modernizing Rabobank's ROP Portal to serve 1,500+ engineers. Skilled in Scala, Kotlin, Java, Go, Kafka and cloud integrations, Mehmet combines hands-on development with technical leadership, mentoring, hiring and public speaking at industry conferences. Notably, he introduced Kotlin into large Java codebases, built automated verification tooling when migrating APIs, and drove rapid AI-enabled documentation search integrations using Azure services. Based in Utrecht and educated at Izmir Institute of Technology, he balances practical delivery with community engagement through talks, meetups and open-source projects.
13 years of coding experience