Résumé

Senior Application Architect and Mobile Engineering Leader. 20+ years designing, building, and leading across finance, healthcare, and consumer tech — from pre-SDK iPhone to today’s founder chapter.

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Experience

2024 — 2025 Remote

Director, Mobile Architecture

Centene Corporation

Directed architecture and delivery for the Ambetter Health and Medicare Health Portal mobile apps across multiple U.S. states, leading a ~15-person onshore/offshore engineering team.

  • Defined a modular React Native architecture with Node.js/Express on AWS serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, S3) for white-label state health plans.
  • Designed a GraphQL orchestration layer with Apollo Server to aggregate dozens of REST APIs.
  • Implemented OAuth 2.0 with Ping Identity (OIDC + SAML SSO) while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
React Native · Node.js · GraphQL · Apollo · AWS · Ping Identity · HIPAA
2024 — 2024 Remote

Team Lead (Contract)

BJ’s Wholesale Club

Led ~20-person mobile engineering team building BJ’s in-house React Native app from scratch to replace an outsourced Ionic/Capacitor solution.

  • Audited Ionic/Capacitor architecture (plugin coverage, bridge performance, WebView limits) and defined a phased React Native migration strategy to feature parity.
React Native · Ionic/Capacitor migration · Team leadership
2021 — 2023 Remote

Architect / Development Manager

Canopy Health

Led full re-platforming of My Canopy Health — React Native apps, React web portal, admin dashboard — for a Bay Area healthcare network serving 500K+ members. Managed a ~10-person dev + QA org.

  • Migrated legacy services to Azure Function Apps + Cosmos DB, introduced IaC via ARM templates.
  • Integrated Okta SSO/OIDC with custom OAuth flows aligned to HIPAA for PII/PHI.
  • Authored a TypeScript bridge wrapping native iOS/Android SDKs for React Native; shipped clean.
  • Integrated telehealth (live video/audio) across browser and mobile via third-party SDK orchestration.
React Native · TypeScript · Azure Functions · Cosmos DB · Okta · HIPAA
2021 — 2022 Remote (San Francisco, CA)

Senior Mobile Architect

Levi Strauss & Co.

Owned architecture for Levi's global consumer app in React Native, supporting an international e-commerce footprint across North America, Europe, and Asia.

  • Integrated Adyen payments, Adobe Target A/B testing, deep-link routing, and full i18n/l10n.
  • Migrated CI/CD to in-house pipeline using Fastlane + GitHub Actions with enterprise Git, Slack, Jira.
React Native · Adyen · Adobe Target · Fastlane · GitHub Actions
2021 — 2022 Remote

Additional contract engineering engagements

Short-term technical leadership

Mar–Jul 2022
HBO Senior Developer / Team Lead Architecture + offshore team management on HBO’s next-gen React Native app. Jest + Storybook testing scaffolding.
Nov 2021 – Mar 2022
Royal Caribbean Senior Developer Feature work and performance bottleneck resolution on React Native app.
Jun–Nov 2021
McDonald’s Mobile Team Lead Native iOS/Android feature dev on global mobile ordering. Resolved critical Swift/Obj-C crashes; production incident response; cross-vendor coordination.
Feb–Jun 2021
KFC Senior Developer Architecture and feature work on KFC’s global React Native app — auth, CAPTCHA, payments.
2012 — 2021 Newport Beach, CA

VP, Mobile Team Lead / Application Architect

PIMCO

Built and led the mobile technology practice at one of the world’s largest investment managers — reporting to the CTO, growing the team to 20+ people over a decade. Delivered a broad portfolio of internal mobile applications across the business, plus PIMCO’s consumer-facing apps on the public App Store.

  • Architected a blockchain-based mobile trading platform on Hyperledger Fabric + React Native + Node/TypeScript + Redis + Kubernetes.
  • Delivered a React Native + GraphQL workflow app that replaced email trade approvals, reducing turnaround from hours to minutes.
  • Created reusable iOS frameworks (Swift + Obj-C) for SSO, networking, and data grids — adopted firm-wide.
  • Established the mobile team from the ground up — hiring, CI/CD, MobileIron MDM for 3,000+ employees, agile, Apple Enterprise admin.
Swift · Obj-C · React Native · Node · GraphQL · .NET · Kubernetes · Hyperledger
2011 — 2012 New York, NY

VP, Mobile Team Lead

Citibank (Citi Private Bank)

Led native iOS development for Citi Private Bank — built the iPad client portal for high-net-worth clients.

  • Implemented encrypted local storage, RSA two-factor auth, custom async HTTP networking framework that was reused across Citi mobile projects.
  • Delivered a shareholder meeting app on a compressed timeline; earned direct recognition from Citi’s CEO.
Objective-C · iOS · iPad · RSA · Async networking
2007 — 2010 New York, NY

Software Architect

HSS Inc. (Maler Group)

Architected a real-time GPS tracking platform on .NET + SQL Server that became the company’s flagship product, deployed at U.S. Investigative Services.

  • Built an early mobile OASIS forms solution for healthcare with XML-driven rendering and touch-first UI.
.NET · C# · SQL Server · Windows Mobile · XML
2006 — 2007 New York, NY

Senior Developer

Philips Medical Systems

Developed mobile field-service applications for Palm OS and Windows Mobile used daily by service engineers across the U.S. and Europe. Integrated with SAP for real-time inventory and scheduling.

Palm OS · Windows Mobile · SAP integration · C#

Skills

Languages

Swift · Objective-C · Kotlin · Java · JavaScript/TypeScript · Python · C# · Dart · Go

Mobile

Native iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI, CoreData, CoreBluetooth) · React Native (8+ yrs) · Ionic/Capacitor/Cordova · Flutter · Kotlin Multiplatform · .NET MAUI

Web

React · Next.js · Angular · Vue  |  Node.js · Express · GraphQL/Apollo · Django · Flask · Spring Boot · ASP.NET

Cloud & data

AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3) · Azure (Function Apps, Cosmos DB, Container Apps) · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · GitHub Actions · Fastlane · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Redis · MS SQL · SQLite

Architecture

Microservices · Serverless · REST/GraphQL API design · Event-driven · MVVM · Clean Architecture · Modular / white-label

Security

OIDC/OAuth 2.0 · SAML · SSO · JWT · Okta · Ping Identity · HIPAA compliance

Education

MBA Fort Lauderdale, FL

Master of Business Administration

Nova Southeastern University

BS Istanbul, Türkiye

Bachelor of Science

Istanbul University

Certifications

CFA

Chartered Financial Analyst — Level I

CFA Institute