Kadir Ergun

Engineering leadership for product & tech teams

Engineering Manager with 10+ years across SaaS, e-commerce, and platform work—microservices, DevOps, and cloud-native delivery for reliable, fast-to-ship products.

I’ve led 40+ engineers, built high-traffic commerce experiences, and modernized stacks on Java/C#/.NET, Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps. Based in Istanbul, working with both public and private sector teams.

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Experience

10+ years

Engineering leadership & product

Teams led

40+

Cross-functional squads

Focus

SaaS, E-comm

Cloud, DevOps, AI

Cloud-native

K8s / Azure

CI/CD, IaC, observability

Stack

Java / C#

Spring Boot, .NET, APIs

Capabilities

Hands-on architecture

Microservices, cloud-native delivery, Java/C#, IIS/Windows server ops, and marketing automation at scale.

Microservices Java C# Spring Boot .NET Kubernetes DevOps Cloud IIS Windows Server CQRS APIs Marketing Automation

Latest

Fully Local AI Portraits with Stable Diffusion + kohya_ss (LoRA)

AI Computer Vision

Step-by-step guide to train and generate ultra-realistic professional headshots locally with Stable Diffusion WebUI and kohya_ss LoRA.

03 December 2025 - dotnet, minimal-api, vertical-slice, mediatr, fluentvalidation, cqrs

Building Clean and Scalable APIs with .NET 8 Minimal API and Vertical Slice Architecture

Backend .NET

A lean template that combines Minimal API, MediatR, FluentValidation, and Vertical Slice for fast, testable services.

03 November 2025 - ai, transformation, data-governance, mlops, change-management

The Missing Pieces in Enterprise AI Transformations

AI Strategy Leadership

Why AI efforts stall after PoCs, and the organizational, data, and process priorities that actually move the needle.

12 June 2025 - conflict-resolution, leadership, team-management, communication, culture

How to Resolve Team Conflicts: Practical, Proven Approaches for Modern Leaders

Leadership Teams

A step-by-step model to surface, manage, and resolve conflicts without damaging trust or delivery.

29 April 2025 - ai, performance-management, leadership, engineering-management

Using AI to Evaluate Team Performance: A Manager's Playbook

Leadership AI

How AI-driven performance systems give managers real-time insight, fairness, and proactive control over modern teams.

11 March 2025 - java, virtual-threads, project-loom, concurrency

Java 21’s Biggest Shift: Virtual Threads with Project Loom

Java Concurrency

How Java 21 reinvents concurrency with lightweight virtual threads and structured concurrency.

Projects

Featured work

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WeFocus SaaS

Employee engagement platform with Java microservices, VueJS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Istio.

Petal Maps

Cross-platform navigation (HarmonyOS, Android, iOS) built with Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis.

Enterprise E-Commerce

EBG B2B portal, Fenerium, Avis/Budget Turkey; multilingual, payment and recommendation engines.

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