Biography
Yilmaz Guleryuz
“Agile & Lean practices must be understood as though the practitioner himself had discovered them from his own mind. Learn about all of them, but never become fond of any.” -- Yogurt for Agile Culture
Entrepreneurial Agile Development, still hands-on coder/explorer, with experience in forming distributed teams ground-up till performing stage, delivering large-scale software services and social media platforms.
Work experience
BeerStorm, Lean & Agile Consulting
January 2013 - Present, Oslo
-> Coaching on Agile/Lean practices
-> Implementing Continuous Delivery techniques
-> Helping on transformation of organisations into becoming organisms
-> Expertise in emerging technologies & domains
-> Hands-on development & delivery
-> Ramping up form of nearshore development
Iterate AS, Senior Consultant on Agile & Lean practices
April 2013 - August 2014, Oslo, NO
Consulting adventure...
Main areas:
> Continuous Delivery
> Agile & Lean working culture: nurturing organisms, applying set of practices, ...
> Experience based self-development with the delightful privilege of weekly/bi-weekly mentoring from Kent Beck
My assignments:
Working onsite, hands-on involvement, with distributed teams at Fronter & S-OL.
Acting as "Lean Navigator" in introducing Continuous Delivery, cross-functional teams/organisms, and blending Yogurt culture for Lean & Agile practices.
Aspiro TV, Head of Development
August 2011 - July 2012, Oslo, Oslo, NO
- Hands-on responsibility for all R&D activities
- Applying-Adapting-Expanding Agile practices
- Inspiring bottom-up innovation on emerging technologies
- Leading cross-functional teams based on multi-geolocations
- Working directly with CTO in building vision & strategies
- Technologies: Java, Android, iOS, IPTV, Connected TV, Live Streaming
http://www.aspiro.tv (changed to http://noriginmedia.com/ )
Vodafone Group Services, Agile Development Manager
March 2008 - July 2011, Dusseldorf, DE
Leading development teams, managing mission critical parts of Vodafone 360 project, end2end service flows.
Designed & delivered the main backbone of software architecture including social network aggregation and social messaging, client-server communication.
Practice: Intrepreneurship