AAAbout Aydin
English
Native or bilingual
Turkish
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Dubai (up to 50km)
Experience
- FINCLUTECHChief Operating Officer ( Deputy CEO )DIGITAL AND ITDecember 2022 - August 2025 (2 years and 8 months)Dubai - United Arab EmiratesGlobal provider of Managed IT Services and Bespoke Software Development for financial services industry.
- Grew startup into a scalable enterprise: tripled workforce to 55+, redefined culture, achieved profitability in under 12 months.
- Built 8 global-grade on-prem data centers, established 24/7 SOC and NOC, and certified with international and national standards like ISO 20000, ISO 27001, UAECB NESA, UAE IAR.
- Modernized software development lifecycle and practices, cutting lead times and improving delivery robustness and quality: tripled client base.
- WHIZMOGlobal Chief Information OfficerBANKING AND INSURANCEDecember 2022 - August 2025 (2 years and 8 months)Dubai - United Arab EmiratesLicensed digital banking and mobile money provider by UAECB: Stored Value Facilities(SVF) & Retail Payment Services and Card Schemes(RPSCS).
- Architected and launched UAECB–compliant mobile money platform with multi-country rollout.
- Established compliant on-prem data centers across multiple jurisdictions.
- Automated operations through digitalization, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
- BITEXEN Crypto ExchangeChief Technology OfficerBANKING AND INSURANCEJune 2021 - June 2022 (1 year)İstanbul, TürkiyeCrypto-focused financial ecosystem serving 2M+ users across digital assets, payments, and securities.
- Scaled engineering, product, and enterprise teams to 75+, reporting through 3 VP-level leaders.
- Achieved 33% customer growth, 3x traffic scaling (350K to 1M+ monthly requests), with zero downtime. Streamlined delivery pipelines and accelerated TTM for strategic initiatives from weeks to hours.
- Launched new blockchain business line and introduced competitive product features to the market.
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Education
- Executive MBAKOC UNIVERSITY & GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY2019Onsite Executive Certificate Program on Globalization & International Trade as part of Executive MBA.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI)ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA2012Invited to UCF as visiting scholar for 1 year to conduct research on Theoretical Computer Vision within UCF Computer Vision laboratory. -- 17 peer-reviewed publications in AI, NLP, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning. -- Past researcher at University of Central Florida, ITU Computer Vision Lab, and Sabanci University. -- Key Interests: Computer Vision, NLP, Speech Processing, Machine Learning, Stochastic Systems, Bioinformatics, Bayesian Theory, Pattern Recognition, and Data Mining. -- Developed a novel method for the real time reconstruction of highly degraded still images.