Leading enterprise software delivery with measurable impact.
Software Engineering Manager with 10+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale software delivery across telecom, e-commerce, industrial automation, and mobile platforms. Strong background in Agile delivery, CI/CD transformation, engineering governance, and distributed team leadership.
Ayhan Uzundal
Software Engineering Manager / Project Manager
About
I own end-to-end product and software delivery, define engineering strategy, and drive cross-functional execution across distributed teams. My leadership approach combines technical depth, delivery discipline, KPI/OKR governance, and stakeholder alignment to create measurable business outcomes.
Product profitability improvement through roadmap optimization and resource allocation.
SDLC efficiency improvement through process optimization and delivery streamlining.
Customer satisfaction improvement through structured release cycles and feedback integration.
Engineering Capabilities
Core capabilities across engineering leadership, delivery ownership, product execution, and technical transformation.
Delivery Ownership
End-to-end product and software delivery from roadmap to production release.
Engineering Leadership
Leadership across development, QA, DevOps, hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
KPI / OKR Governance
Data-driven delivery tracking, engineering transparency, and accountability models.
CI/CD Transformation
Pipeline optimization, quality gates, automation frameworks, and release governance.
Work Experience
Enterprise software delivery experience across Huawei, Siemens, Hepsiburada, Turkcell, and Netaş.
Huawei — Software Engineering Manager / Project Manager
November 2024 — Present | HarmonyOS Mobile Operating System New Version Project v6.0–v7.0- Led 20+ engineers across software development, QA, and automation in a distributed Turkey–China organization.
- Owned $8M-scale multi-regional delivery program from roadmap to production release.
- Established KPI/OKR-driven engineering governance, improving transparency and delivery accountability.
- Built and scaled an AI-assisted multilingual validation framework across 11 languages.
- Reduced manual validation effort from approximately 39 hours to a few hours per cycle via automation.
- Conducted 50+ technical interviews and supported engineering team scaling.
- Delivered production releases with no major production incidents.
Siemens — Software Engineering Tech Lead
April 2021 — November 2024 | 5G Smart Factory Network Management Platform- Led a 10+ member engineering team across Development, Quality Engineering, and DevOps.
- Defined end-to-end delivery strategy, quality governance, release processes, and automation roadmap.
- Built CI/CD-integrated delivery pipelines, improving release efficiency by 50%.
- Designed automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and performance validation.
- Delivered €5M enterprise platform with zero critical production defects at release.
Hepsiburada — Senior Software Engineer
July 2019 — April 2021 | Merchant Platform Transformation- Contributed to modernization of Merchant Platform from legacy to microservices architecture.
- Designed validation strategies for high-volume merchant workflows including listing, catalog, and orders.
- Supported CI/CD pipelines, deployment stability, API validation, and engineering process improvements.
Turkcell via Netaş — Senior Software Engineer
September 2016 — July 2019 | BiP & Fizy Platforms- Contributed to large-scale telecom digital platforms under high traffic.
- Supported API and backend engineering initiatives improving release stability.
- Designed functional, integration, and regression validation strategies.
Technical Skills
Engineering, automation, cloud, observability, and data technologies.
Engineering Practices
Programming & Engineering
Cloud & DevOps
Quality & Automation
Observability
Data & Storage
Education & Certifications
Istanbul University
Master of Business Administration, MBA
2019 — 2021
Duzce University
Bachelor of Computer Engineering
2013 — 2017
GPA: 3.6 / 4.0
Languages
English — Fluent
Turkish — Fluent
German — Basics
Certificates
Let’s connect.
Open to conversations around engineering leadership, software delivery, QA transformation, automation strategy, and product execution.