Özgur Özdemircili

Capital Blau Ventures

CEO

March 2023 - present•capitalblau.com

Capital Blau Ventures is the first Turkish-owned investment company in Spain, that is founded to provide smart investment and internationalisation to startups in Turkey - Middle Asia and USA helping them expand into the Spanish and European markets. Thanks to other companies that are a part of Capital Blau Ventures also helps Spanish and Catalan businesses and venture capital firms get access to Turkish Startup eco-system and Turkish market for investment as well as near-shoring. Our current portfolio spans a wide range of cutting-edge technologies and industries, including data analytics, voice, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and Industry 4.0. Capital Blau Ventures is a trusted provider of Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona with the Turkish Business HUB project which aims to connect both Turkiye and Spain via Barcelona.

Amazon Web Services

Head of Enterprise Support - Spain & Portugal

May 2019 - June 2022•aws.com

As the head of Enterprise Support, I led our initiatives to grow our business in Spain and Portugal with end-to-end responsibility. Supporting all AWS Service that our customers use from our basic services like EC2, S3,Aurora to our most complex services. I am constantly in contact with our internal stakeholders in sales, marketing, partners and internal service teams as well as our customer C-level executive to create long term actionable goals to grow our customers. I also continuously grow our Enterprise Support staff, employing top talent for our company. Some of my duties include: -Deep dive into customer solutions and architecture to help them create well architected, cost optimised, secure architecture towards future -Take place in customer escalations and work with internal leadership peers to have our customers resolve their issues in the most time effective way. - Help shape and execute a strategy and broad use of Amazon Web Services with our customers in Spain & Portugal. - Within a customer’s environment engage in discussions with senior personnel regarding incidents, trade-offs, best practices, and risk management. Work in strategic initiatives on business, product, and technical challenges as you help our customers take advantage of the efficiencies, cost savings and quick innovation available only in the cloud. - Champion and advocate for Enterprise customers within Amazon Web Services (be their voice) - Develop the team responsible for solving technical issues and working directly with AWS engineers to ensure that customer issues are resolved as expediently as possible - Help Enterprise customers define IT and business processes that work well with cloud deployments - Engage with Director and C-Level executives to translate business needs into technical and operational plans - Analyze and present operational reviews to customer leadership

Reporting to Chief Engineering Officer. Assuming the responsibility of Site Reliability Engineering. * Manage the current budget of 1M+ and reduce costs while keeping up the increase necessary for business needs * Manage, hire, mentor and motivate the Site Reliability Engineering team * Implement and supervise infrastructure platform design for all Launchmetrics products. Both in Amazon AWS and other cloud platforms. * Work closely with the other department heads and wider teams to develop world-class products and play a key role on the Technology Committee to ensure overall business success including advising on technologies that may improve efficiency and effectiveness of internal processes. * Promote and defend DevOps culture inside Launchmetrics for all products and teams. * Maintain an understanding of leading-edge technologies and make determinations on the best technology to implement; help integrate them into Launchmetrics’ product development. * Understand and communicate departmental financial and resource needs, development schedules and progress reports regularly to the Chief Engineering Officer. * Create and manage process improvement projects to continuously improve how the company develops and deploys its products. * Reassure security at the infrastructure level. * Oversee the maintenance of a real-time alert and monitoring infrastructure and manage the 24/7 support. * Direct and maintain relationships and negotiate contracts with key vendors.

Managing software developer and devops teams across Switzerland and Barcelona, consisting of senior developer profiles. Acting as a single point of contact and local representative build, manage, and innovate Roche's Devops department in Spain. My duties also include aligning Devops software development needs with outsourcing model in Roche,collaborate in continuous integration with release engineering team, recruitment of new staff, licensing of development and end user products, investment portfolio for all Devops related activities,

Responsable for the environments. Working woth multiple teams on the stability of Development, Integration, Acceptance and Production environments. -Work with the Devops, infrasctructure, architecture and release management teams in stability of the environments. - Attend and organize necessary meetings to discuss current issues. - Planification and organization of the upcoming interventions. - Assuring and reporting the environment stability issues. - Taking place in organizing infrastructure, communications and production team tasks. - Creating and organizing Release Management team inside QA department - Mentoring the current release management manager - Employing senior Devops and release management profiles. - Incorporating the industry standards and methodologies (Kan ban / Scrum) in Release Management. - Organizing and tracking the environment readiness in UAT(QA) and future training, pre-production and finally production environments. - Tracking and reporting different aspects of the migration project. - Working with production teams to correctly mitigate incidents and manage stakeholders. Schedule interventions and manage the project and risks.

• Drive and lead performance management and reporting function, ensuring all staff are fully aware of the required performance targets, together with the related performance achieved • Recruitment of highly technical staff • Supporting and implementing Continuous delivery • Coordinate and ensure SDLC processes • Lead and develop and a highly effective and motivated team with clearly defined objectives aligned to the overall team objectives • Design, delivery, configuration and sizing of application hardware platforms and extensions • Capacity and growth planning for the Discovery of Science practice area platforms • Manage relationships with key stakeholders, e.g. development, datacentre operation, and production support within the defined remit • Partner with production support team to ensure optimum handshake of software delivery • Continuous application support processes and software delivery improvements • Establishing consistent approaches and working standards • Leading technical changes design and implementation

Serhstourism is incoming travel agency that acts as both a global provider of services for national wholesale travel agencies and for international travel agencies and tour operators with a unique bank of 13.500 hotels located in more than 65 countries. The xml requests we are receiving are ranging from 3.000.000 to 6.000.000 daily with more than 100.000 clients which in return produces an income of 465 million Euros yearly.