About Gökhan
Principal Software Engineer with 25 years of experience designing and scaling distributed backend systems. Specialized in event-driven architectures that enable fine-grained user consent management and privacy compliance across global markets. Proven track record of shaping technical roadmaps, mentoring engineering teams, and delivering high-performance services that balance user privacy with business objectives.
Turkish
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Dutch
Basic
Can work on-site
Utrecht (up to 50km)
Experience
- NikePrincipal Software EngineerFebruary 2025 - January 2026 (11 months)Hilversum, NH, Netherlands• • Led 4 cross-functional teams (20 engineers across EU/US, frontend and backend) to build and operate Nike's global consent and permissions platform end to end as SME in Privacy domain.• • Designed and evolved a distributed backend system for user consent and permissions that reliably handled around 30 million requests per day with strict latency SLOs and multi-region resiliency.• • Defined the technical roadmap and implemented key components for fine-grained, jurisdiction-aware consent models, improving observability and compliance coverage across all user-data services.• • Partnered with legal, privacy and product stakeholders to translate regulatory and business requirements into concrete technical designs and SLAs, ensuring alignment, clear trade-offs and on-time delivery of consent-related features.
- NikeLead Software EngineerMarch 2023 - February 2025 (1 year and 11 months)Hilversum, NH, Netherlands• •Co-led the cross-geo User Lifecycle Events (ULS) team, owning end-to-end flows for Data Subject Rights (DSR) requests such as delete, deactivate, reactivate and export user data across Nike's consumer ecosystem.• • Designed and implemented event-driven pipelines that process high volumes of privacy-related user lifecycle events across downstream systems, ensuring timely and verifiable handling of user data in line with global regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.• • Built monitoring, audit logging and replay tooling for ULS workflows so privacy, legal and security stakeholders could trace individual lifecycle events and prove compliance during internal and external audits.
- LINKITPrincipal Software EngineerJanuary 2022 - March 2023 (1 year and 2 months)Utrecht, Netherlands• • Led a squad of 6 engineers by mentoring on design and code quality, increasing on-time delivery of sprint commitments from roughly 70% to over 90%.• •Supported JavaScript squad growth by designing and reviewing 20+ technical assessments, improving pass-through-to-offer ratio and reducing average hiring time by about 20%.• • Fostered a collaborative environment that encouraged innovation and skill development.
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Education
- Bachelor of ArtsAnadolu University2013Bachelor of Arts
- AWS Certified Developer – AssociateAmazon Web Services (AWS)2018AWS Certified Developer – Associate