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Mustafa Demir

Tech company lead and a dad

Mustafa Demir is the VP of Engineering at Toolio, a cloud-based merchandising platform for retailers. Here are some key details about his background and career:

Education and Early Career

Mustafa holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.12 He began his career as a Software Engineer at Koc Bilgi ve Savunma Teknolojileri A.S. from 2005 to 2008, where he worked on large-scale military projects using Java/J2EE technologies.2

Experience at Udemy

Prior to joining Toolio, Mustafa had a long and successful career at Udemy:

  • He was one of the founding engineers at Udemy, joining in April 2011.2
  • Over his 11-year tenure, he rose to become Country Manager & Sr. Director of Engineering for Udemy's Turkey office.2
  • He helped scale Udemy's Turkey office from 1 to over 100 employees across all functions.2
  • As an engineering leader, he was responsible for payments architecture, search infrastructure, and collaborative filtering modules.2

Current Role at Toolio

Mustafa joined Toolio as VP of Engineering in February 2022.12 In this role, he:

  • Leads the engineering organization, which is distributed globally.3
  • Aims to leverage his experience from Udemy to help grow Toolio's engineering team and culture.3
  • Is actively involved in recruiting and expanding the engineering team.3

Personal

Mustafa describes himself as a "Tech company lead and a dad".2 He is passionate about startups and was drawn to Toolio's mission and the opportunity to work in a new domain after his long tenure at Udemy.3

Highlights

Jun 24 · linkedin

🚀 Join Toolio, a Fast-Growing Startup! 🚀 We’re hiring for two exciting roles: Sr. Full Stack Data Scientist

  • Drive data-driven decisions with cutting-edge tech.
  • Requirements: Python, SQL, machine learning frameworks, cloud platforms. Sr. Machine Learning Operations (ML/Ops) Engineer
  • Design and optimize ML pipelines and infrastructure.
  • Requirements: ML lifecycle management, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, Python, Docker, Kubernetes. 🌟 Why Toolio?
  • Fast-growing startup
  • Great engineering culture
  • Talented team Apply now and make an impact! 🔗 Data Scientist: https://lnkd.in/dERxVDZk 🔗 ML/Ops Engineer: https://lnkd.in/dwP8DDmM #Hiring #DataScience #MLOps #StartupJobs #Toolio
Feb 14 · linkedin

It is time to fly for new adventures!

11 years ago, when i joined to Udemy, there were 3 excited co-founders who were so passionate to change the education world. I resigned my job in a day after having a conversation with Eren Bali. We started to build the engineering team by doing our interviews at METU public library or at offices of our friends. We were 8 people at May 2011 with including our co-founders. Planned a workation (work&vacation) with the team for a week at south side of Turkey, Kalkan/Antalya. We rented a private house which has 9 bedrooms and a private pool to spend sometime with the team who will be rocking the education world. We have introduced ourselves and clearly stated our career expectations. All of us were so passionate about what we are gonna build to improve lives through learning. After 11 years, Udemy became a public company as we all believed in.. It was our dream and it is now real. I really appreciate Eren Bali for providing me this opportunity and i always feel proud of being a member of such a great, talented and humble team!

We should be proud of what we have built together in terms of culture and product.. This is a team success.. Without of having such a passionate, humble, mission obsessed team, we couldn't be here as Udemy.. I will miss every minute i've spent with you all; challenges we had, failures & successes, hack-a-thons, retreats, FIFA tournaments, DOTA nights, happy hours, karaoke parties...

Attaching a picture from our workation time, while having our breakfast with the first engineering team of Udemy and with our co-founders.. Another picture from the first office of the Udemy (just a corner of the floor), a shared space with other 3 companies at the same floor...

#career #success #udemy #neverstoplearning #ipo #teamwork #passionate #startup

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