- 14 years of software design and development experience; 7 years at Microsoft - Excellent level Object Oriented Programming (OOP) knowledge in C#, Java and C++ - 7 years of software as a service (SaaS) experience. - Experience in Web Services (WCF, REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, ASP.NET, PHP, Lithium, Play) - Experience in Big Data, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing (MS Windows Azure) - Experience in Rich Internet Apps (RIA): JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, Silverlight, Bootstrap - Experience in Mobile Development (Objective-C, Phone Gap, Android) - Experience in datacenter monitoring and diagnostics - Shipped multiple version of both enterprise level server systems and online services - Entrepreneur (founder of DineSmart365.com, shebeke.net, etc) - BS degree in CS (Bilkent University, Turkey, 2001) - MBA degree with thesis (Ankara University, Turkey, 2004)

Senior Software Engineer @ Mobile Platform Engineering... From March 2015 to Present (10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Software Engineer @ - Architected a REST-full web service to centralize business logic of all customer facing applications of Zulily. - Helped Zulily to move towards service-architecture by integrating all customer facing applications (web site, mobile web site and mobile applications) to the newly developed web service. - Introduced a process around performance measurement to ensure scalability of services for millions of people every day. Improved performance by 20-30% in many areas. - Pioneered test automation and QA to assure quality. Instrumented all major functionalities with test automation. - Interviewed tens of candidates, mentored new hires. - Technology Stack: PHP, Lithium, Redis, Mongo DB, Elastic Search, MySQL, Rabbit MQ, PHPUnit, GIT, Splunk, Nginx, Linux. From November 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 4 months) Founder and CEO @ - Shipped a mobile, customer satisfaction & customer loyalty management solution for restaurants. - Architected and developed the end-to-end product including an IPhone app, a WCF RESTful web service to handle mobile app requests, a web portal for restaurant managers, an onboarding web site to provision new customers and a worker role to push mobile notifications. - Experienced other facets of building a new startup: business development, marketing, etc. - Tech stack: Objective-C, WCF, REST, jQuery, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server, Azure, C#, .NET * Web portal: http://dinesmart365.com * Iphone app: http://is.gd/smarter365 From July 2012 to November 2013 (1 year 5 months) Greater Seattle AreaCo-founder, president @ - Co-founded and volunteered as president for Northwest Turkish American Chamber of Commerce - Onboarded new volunteers by evangelizing the chamber and its services - Arranged career coffee nights and other events for professionals - Launched ‘Startup Circle’ program to bring entrepreneurs together - See http://nowta.org for more details about the chamber From December 2009 to May 2013 (3 years 6 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Design Engineer @ MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 IDENTITY - Helped to ship the first versions of Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) - Helped to develop a scalable distributed system to process terra bytes of log data to provide a base for diagnosing problems in the datacenters. - Developed a rich UI to demonstrate current health state of subsystems in the datacenters. - Contributed to developing a WCF SOAP web service to enable MS partners and syndicates onboard new customers on BPOS programmatically. - Contributed to developing a service to handle support/service requests of Microsoft BPOS customers. - Developed an RSS based online solution to push service health related updates to Microsoft BPOS customers. - Helped to develop a click-once desktop application that patches customer’s machine to make them compatible with Microsoft’s BPOS offerings. - Tech stack: WCF Web Services (SOAP), WCF RIA Web Services, .NET Entity Framework, MS Internet Information Services (IIS), MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Microsoft System Center Operation Manager (SCOM), Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS, XML, RSS, ASP.NET, C#, Silverlight, XAML, PowerShell. MICROSOFT SQL SERVER – SERVICE BROKER: - Helped to automate testing Microsoft SQL Server’s Service Broker, which runs as a part of the database engine, and provides a reliable messaging and message queuing platform for SQL Server applications over TCP/IP. - Designed and developed a generic ‘SQL Server Security Test Framework’ to automate security tests regarding certain database actions along with various login, user, grantee, grantor and permissions. - Designed and developed an infrastructure (MS SQL Server - Virtual Lab) to generate on-request virtual machines with desired MS SQL Server and Operating System installed for engineers to ease their daily test/repro/inspection efforts. - Tech stack: MS Windows Test Technologies (WTT), MS SQL Server, MS Virtual Server, C#, ASP.NET From October 2005 to September 2012 (7 years) Senior Software Engineer @ Peace Eagle-Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS): Peace Eagle is a mission computing system for Boeing-AWACS type aircrafts. My team’s task was to design and implement the interface for Electronic Support Measurements Subsystem (ESMS) that acts as a detector of air weapon systems. The mission critical information is delivered to the pilots’ flight tactical displays, crews’ operational consoles and other related components in the system. Management of ESMS subsystem was also a responsibility of this module. Other Keywords: C++, CORBA, ACE, TAO, Rational Rose, Clear Case, Clear Quest. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year) Software Eng. & Researcher @ Secure Network Management System for cryptographic IP and ISDN devices: Designed and developed a multi-tier network management system for IP and ISDN based cryptographic devices, which provide a virtual private network (VPN) by encrypting & decrypting all flowing internet traffic. Other keys: Java, C++, Java Native Interface (JNI), SNMP, Multi-threading, socket programming, HP OpenView, UML (Rational Rose), JavaCard (Gemplus Smartcard Development), Borland’s Caliber RM and StarTeam. From October 2002 to October 2004 (2 years 1 month) Software Engineer @ Field Artillery Battery Fire Direction System (BAIKS): BAIKS is a military software that can be described as messaging units, runs on both NT and on a hand-terminal, which are equipped with wireless communication devices. The software interacts with other hand-terminals, radars, GPS; and it basically helps to plan the attacks & defenses and controls the military operations by its messaging services. From July 2001 to October 2002 (1 year 4 months)

BS, Computer Science @ Bilkent University From 1997 to 2001 MBA, Business Management, Financial Management @ From 2001 to 2004 Baris Taze is skilled in: Software Engineering, Software Design, Software Development, Object Oriented Design, C#, .NET, C/C++, Java, ASP.NET, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, jQuery, jQuery UI, CSS