M. Ali Köken
Rotterdam
Summary
Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect
FedEx (Freelance Position)
10.2022 - Current
- IT Lead and Solution Architect for Customer facing Global Rating and Transit Times as well as Digital Customer Support applications on fedex.com. These applications handle hundreds of thousands of requests daily.
- Served as Lead Architect for Orange to Purple (TNT to FedEx) migration project.
- Lead Generative Artificial Intelligence effort in Digital International Department, especially around Customer Support and Development Experience improvement topics.
- Facilitated seamless communication between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders across the enterprise by effectively translating complex concepts into understandable terms for all parties involved in projects.
- Managed end-to-end software development life-cycle, from initial requirements gathering to post-implementation support and maintenance across multiple applications.
- Improved solution efficiency by designing and implementing scalable architectures for enterprise clients.
- Developed comprehensive op-co wide documentation for solution design specifications, ensuring clear communication between stakeholders at all stages of project lifecycle.
Solution Architect
ABN Amro Bank N.V.
09.2021 - 10.2022
- Work closely with Product Owners, IT Leads, Solution & Enterprise architects, Security and Compliance teams to provide strategical and technical guidance for the product feature backlog
- Align with Enterprise & Principle architects from various focus areas
- Work closely with Architecture Review Board, especially around preparation and presentation of Solution Intents.
- Establish and communicate architectural guidelines and best practices to DevOps teams, IT Leads, Department Heads
- Guide the DevOps teams and align with Platform & Technology teams during implementation phase as part of the Digital Transformation, Cloud Adaption and Hybrid Cloud journey.
- Gather and document high level requirements from various stakeholders, translate into process, cost optimized system architecture designs & solution intents.
Technical / Solution Architect
Parkmobile B.V.
01.2018 - 09.2021
- Lead Architect for Serverless and Event Driven Architecture within the engineering organization leading teams in bringing 20+ Serverless Application on AWS to production handling millions of daily requests
- Support Lead & Enterprise Architects, Head of Engineering & Head of Product when determining KPIs and OKRs for the organization
- Work closely with Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Security & Compliance teams and external partners to provide technical guidance for the product feature backlog and communicate progress & results back to key stakeholders
- Collaborate closely with the cloud infrastructure team to help teams to self-manage cloud resources, cost monitoring & optimization and IAM using IaC following guidelines & best practices
- Own technical backlog for the next 3 quarters (SAFE PIs) and technically lead 5 feature teams, composed of frontend backend developers, QA engineers, cloud engineers as well as UX designers
- Monitor technical trends and create, improve, maintain and communicate architectural guidelines, tools, standards and best practices - including tie ins to data architecture and organization.
Lead .NET Developer
Parkmobile B.V.
06.2016 - 12.2017
- Lead backend teams during feature development using SOLID, Test Driven Development while migrating the monolith application to Micro Services
- Working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team
- Lead technical portion of the recruitment process of backend developers (phone and face-to-face interviews)
- Guiding developers and taking lead in any PoC effort (new libraries, utilities, CI/CD pipelines, integrations etc, Docker Containers, IaC)
- Create and maintain Code Generator to easily create new (micro) services according to the coding standards and set up the technical base for Micro Services based on .NET Framework, ASP.NET Web API (OWIN) and NET Core
- Analyze work for lift-and-shift of servers (VMware vSphere) to AWS Cloud and consultancy to the infra team for setting up first VMs on AWS.
Senior .NET Developer
Parkmobile B.V.
12.2015 - 06.2016
- Development of new features and bug fixes on the monolith system and utility services
- Documentation of (then) current architecture and on boarding process
- Refactoring of core libraries and update of software to new .NET Framework version (across multi systems taking into account internal and external dependencies)
- Scrum Master and Technical Lead/Contact for BMW Online Integration project (provided support until late 2017)
Technical Lead
Eurofins Medinet
03.2012 - 11.2015
- Responsible for technical quality & stability of the software as well as aligning Offshore and Local team development processes and communication
- Implemented UI and backend code generators as well as documentations to ease and standardize development.
- Served as scrum master for the development team after adaptation of agile methodology by IT Development department
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering
Jacobs University Bremen
Bremen, Germany06.2008
Secondary Education: Science Diploma -
Istanbul American Robert College
06.2005
Skills
Soft Skills and Leadership/Management Skills
Effective Communication & Presentation
Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking
Adaptability & Continuous Learning
Team Leadership & Mentoring
Agile & Scrum Methodologies
Cross-functional Team Collaboration
Stakeholder Management & Communication
Strategic Planning & Roadmaps
Vendor Management
Change Management
Technical Skills
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (TOGAF)
Public and Private Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
Microservices Architecture
API Design & Management (RESTful, GraphQL)
Containerization & Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Action, TeamCity, CloudBees)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK)
DevOps Practices
Database Technologies (Relational and NoSQL)
AI & Machine Learning Integration (LocalLLMs, OpenAI, LangChain, Llama-Index, Vector Databases)
Security Architecture (Zero-Trust, Identity Management)
Data Governance & Compliance (eg, GDPR, HIPAA)
Event-Driven Architectures (Kafka, Cloud Native Tools)
Version Control (Git, GitHub, GitLab)
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, 07/2019
- The Open Group - TOGAF 9 Certification, 12/2021, Present, 157791
- ArchiMate 3 Foundation & Practitioner Certification, June 2023
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Turkish
Proficient
C2
Dutch
Intermediate
B1
German
Elementary
A2
Hobbies and Interests
- Biking
- Table Tennis
- Cooking
- Hobby Electronics
Training
- Tweakers Developers Summit, 02/2020, Guest Speaker
- ArchiMate® 3 Foundation & Practitioner Certification Training from Capgemini academy (2022)
- TOGAF ® 9 Training from Unit Academy (2022)
- AWS Conferences in Netherlands, 2016 - Present, Participant
- Microsoft Conferences in Netherlands, 2015 - Present, Participant
Timeline
Solution Architect
FedEx (Freelance Position)
10.2022 - Current
Solution Architect
ABN Amro Bank N.V.
09.2021 - 10.2022
Technical / Solution Architect
Parkmobile B.V.
01.2018 - 09.2021
Lead .NET Developer
Parkmobile B.V.
06.2016 - 12.2017
Senior .NET Developer
Parkmobile B.V.
12.2015 - 06.2016
Technical Lead
Eurofins Medinet
03.2012 - 11.2015
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering
Jacobs University Bremen
Secondary Education: Science Diploma -
Istanbul American Robert College
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