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I am İlker Yeşilkaya, a Principal Systems Architect, DevOps, Full Stack and Applied AI Lead from Türkiye with 18+ years of experience across Aggrotech, Mining, Insurtech, Healthcare, Education, Construction, and Heavy Industry. I’ve led global digital transformations, designed microservice ecosystems, and built self-managing, high-efficiency teams that deliver reliable, scalable software in demanding environments. I specialize in Industrial IoT, data-driven decision systems, and platform engineering—bridging legacy Windows systems with modern cloud-native architectures. I love turning complex data into actionable insights, applying Lean/Kaizen to software lifecycles, and continuously improving delivery with risk management, CI/CD, and security gates. I’m open to remote opportunities and relocation.…I am İlker Yeşilkaya, a Principal Systems Architect, DevOps, Full Stack and Applied AI Lead from Türkiye with 18+ years of experience across Aggrotech, Mining, Insurtech, Healthcare, Education, Construction, and Heavy Industry. I’ve led global digital transformations, designed microservice ecosystems, and built self-managing, high-efficiency teams that deliver reliable, scalable software in demanding environments. I specialize in Industrial IoT, data-driven decision systems, and platform engineering—bridging legacy Windows systems with modern cloud-native architectures. I love turning complex data into actionable insights, applying Lean/Kaizen to software lifecycles, and continuously improving delivery with risk management, CI/CD, and security gates. I’m open to remote opportunities and relocation.

İlker Yeşilkaya

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I am İlker Yeşilkaya, a Principal Systems Architect, DevOps, Full Stack and Applied AI Lead from Türkiye with 18+ years of experience across Aggrotech, Mining, Insurtech, Healthcare, Education, Construction, and Heavy Industry. I’ve led global digital transformations, designed microservice ecosystems, and built self-managing, high-efficiency teams that deliver reliable, scalable software in demanding environments. I specialize in Industrial IoT, data-driven decision systems, and platform engineering—bridging legacy Windows systems with modern cloud-native architectures. I love turning complex data into actionable insights, applying Lean/Kaizen to software lifecycles, and continuously improving delivery with risk management, CI/CD, and security gates. I’m open to remote opportunities and relocation.…I am İlker Yeşilkaya, a Principal Systems Architect, DevOps, Full Stack and Applied AI Lead from Türkiye with 18+ years of experience across Aggrotech, Mining, Insurtech, Healthcare, Education, Construction, and Heavy Industry. I’ve led global digital transformations, designed microservice ecosystems, and built self-managing, high-efficiency teams that deliver reliable, scalable software in demanding environments. I specialize in Industrial IoT, data-driven decision systems, and platform engineering—bridging legacy Windows systems with modern cloud-native architectures. I love turning complex data into actionable insights, applying Lean/Kaizen to software lifecycles, and continuously improving delivery with risk management, CI/CD, and security gates. I’m open to remote opportunities and relocation.

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I am İlker Yeşilkaya, a Principal Systems Architect, DevOps, Full Stack and Applied AI Lead from Türkiye with 18+ years of experience across Aggrotech, Mining, Insurtech, Healthcare, Education, Construction, and Heavy Industry. I’ve led global digital transformations, designed microservice ecosystems, and built self-managing, high-efficiency teams that deliver reliable, scalable software in demanding environments.

I specialize in Industrial IoT, data-driven decision systems, and platform engineering—bridging legacy Windows systems with modern cloud-native architectures. I love turning complex data into actionable insights, applying Lean/Kaizen to software lifecycles, and continuously improving delivery with risk management, CI/CD, and security gates. I’m open to remote opportunities and relocation.

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Work Experience

Principal R&D Lead & Solution Architect at Metacognitive LLC & Greenstones Research Lab

January 1, 2023 - Present

Lead platform engineering and AI-driven initiatives across Aggrotech, energy, NLP and logistics platforms. Architected microservice ecosystems, graph-based analytics and time-series AI pipelines; steered platform engineering for Susimo.com and ECOSTEM project governance; guided strategic grant programs and fraud analysis initiatives in bio-asset security.

Senior Full Stack Developer (Core Team Member) at Inline Data Systems

January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023

Led migration from a monolith ASP.NET WebForms system to a Serverless Cloud-Native architecture on AWS. Modernized data layer for high-throughput financial transactions using Microservices and Event-Driven patterns; delivered scalable, resilient web dashboards.

Migration Manager & Team Leader at El-Masane El-Kobra Mining Co.

January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2022

Directed a 50TB data migration into a new digital ecosystem; built capacity among mining engineers in SQL Server, R Studio and statistics; delivered the migration within 30 days across 5 sprints.

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at DNB Analytics (Insurtech & HealthTech)

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Founded and grew the startup to 10,000+ clients with a successful exit in 2021. Built Proprietary Graph AI framework for behavioural data, developed AI-driven fraud detection and psychometric risk assessment models; established ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 quality management systems.

Delivery Manager & Chief of Developers at Tüprag Metal Mining (Eldorado Gold Corp.)

January 1, 2014 - January 1, 2017

Transformed reporting infrastructure to a Microservice Architecture using DDD; implemented DevOps with Kaizen-driven SDLC improvements and automated testing; led mission-critical industrial IoT and centralized reporting.

Lead .NET Trainer & Software Consultant at İzmir İ -Akademi

January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2016

Mentored 500+ developers, delivered dozens of production-grade solutions for SMEs, and established standards for Best Practices, OOP and Design Patterns across training and real-world projects.

Project & Production Manager (Industrial Optimization) at AK-YAMANLAR TEKSTİL GÜNEŞLİK TENTE

January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2011

Led Lean Manufacturing transformation, digitized Order-to-Delivery workflow, and achieved 95% reduction in process errors within 3 years.

Assistant Analyst & Designer at Joker BOAT

January 1, 2004 - January 1, 2006

Created Marine CAD simulations, supporting outer hull design and fluid dynamics analysis for production.