Levent Kurt

Advising startups and SMEs on technology due diligence, cloud architecture, and digital transformation roadmaps.

• Direct technical due diligence and digital transformation roadmaps for portfolio companies and SMEs.
• Architect multi-tenant, cloud-native solutions across AWS and Azure with regional compliance in mind.
• Delivered a private LLM rollout for a regional conglomerate and reduced startup cloud burn through infrastructure restructuring.

Budget scope

Advisory portfolio scope

Led a 12-month technology turnaround that prepared Farmasi's digital platform for global growth.

• Scaled the engineering organization from 35 to 60+ to support global expansion.
• Completed the shift to a mobile-first architecture and launched the company's first mobile application.
• Moved core infrastructure to AWS and standardized R&D processes to improve delivery efficiency.

Team size

35 → 60 engineers

Budget scope

Global expansion program

Directed multi-vertical product and software delivery across one of Turkey's largest media and gaming groups.

• Led software development lifecycles for major media brands and digital gaming platforms inside Demirören Group.
• Managed a direct team of 90+ and coordinated a broader ecosystem of 250+ employees across group companies.
• Built a 30-person technology team for Misli Azerbaijan in two months across backend, mobile, and QA.

Team size

90 direct / 250+ ecosystem

Budget scope

Group portfolio scope

Co-founded a game studio and led both technology delivery and day-to-day management for the first product launch.

• Led technology and management operations for a Unity-based game development studio.
• Managed a blended team of 8 full-time staff and 10 freelancers.
• Shipped the MVP for the studio's inaugural title, BORA, in December 2019.

Team size

8 full-time + 10 freelancers

Budget scope

Startup studio scope

Owned product, architecture, DevOps, ERP, and PMO functions for a global e-commerce leader serving 20M+ customers.

• Managed a 68-person cross-functional organization spanning Product, PMO, Software Architecture, DevOps, and ERP.
• Improved web performance by 300% and doubled warehouse time-to-shipment metrics.
• Established an in-house R&D center and moved infrastructure to AWS for greater stability and scale.

Team size

68 cross-functional professionals

Budget scope

Global commerce platform

Ran software development, IT operations, and QA for a major gaming portfolio across the EMEA region.

• Oversaw software development, IT operations, and QA for high-traffic gaming products.
• Managed 300+ systems across three datacenters and an 8 Gbps network footprint.
• Introduced Agile project management and data-driven BI for live game management analytics.

Budget scope

Regional operations scope

Progressed through technology leadership roles while helping scale Turkey's pioneering C2C marketplace through its eBay integration.

• Oversaw 1,000+ virtualized systems and a 26-person team in progressive leadership roles.
• Played a pivotal role in technical due diligence and post-acquisition integration following eBay's investment.
• Built a private cloud platform that achieved 100% virtualization while cutting physical servers by half.

Team size

26 people / 1,000+ systems

Budget scope

Acquisition integration scope

Led system administration work inside a telecom environment where reliability and production operations were core.

• Managed infrastructure operations during a formative telecom leadership chapter.
• Built the operational depth that later translated into larger-scale platform and cloud responsibilities.

Owned architecture responsibilities during an early enterprise software and platform design chapter.

• Focused on software architecture decisions that strengthened platform design and delivery foundations.
• Expanded technical breadth ahead of later infrastructure and executive leadership roles.

Stepped into delivery leadership while building enterprise software and coordinating team execution.

• Led development delivery in an enterprise information systems environment.
• Built the management and coordination skills that fed directly into later architecture and operations roles.

Developed internet-facing software systems during the early growth years of web services in Turkey.

• Built hands-on software delivery experience in internet services.
• Strengthened the application development base that preceded later team leadership roles.

Started the software engineering career path by building core development experience in computing systems.

• Established foundational software development practice across business-critical systems.
• Built the technical base for later architecture, operations, and executive leadership roles.