Mustafa Evleksiz
Product Engineer / Full Stack Developer · Dubai

Crafting reliable enterprise systems by day, AI-powered hobby apps by night.

Open to coffee and good ideas
About

I've been curious about how things work for as long as I can remember.

I've always been drawn to numbers and the structure behind systems. It's never been enough for something to just work — I've always wanted to understand why it works.

That curiosity eventually turned into software.

But for me, software has never been just about writing code. It's a way to build systems that are reliable, practical, and actually hold up in real-world use.

I currently work as a Product Engineer at a bank in Dubai.

My work goes beyond building features. I focus on making sure systems run smoothly, perform well, and behave correctly in production. Once something is live, I still see it as my responsibility.

I also care a lot about the product side.

It's not just about how something is built, but why it's built and what it means for the user.

Outside of work, I like experimenting.

I build small AI-powered products and turn ideas into working prototypes. Some stay as experiments, others evolve into real products.

In short

I enjoy simplifying complex things, building systems that actually work, and turning ideas into real products.

Experience

    • Own the technical roadmap and lifecycle of a vendor-built banking application used across the organization.
    • Manage end-to-end deployments, environment migrations, and integrations with internal systems.
    • Work on improving system reliability and performance by diagnosing complex production issues and driving optimizations.
    • Work closely with internal teams and vendors to deliver new features and improvements smoothly.
    • Joined as the first in-house developer and quickly grew into leading a team of 4 engineers.
    • Led sprint planning and day-to-day execution while staying hands-on with backend and mobile development.
    • Built and maintained a React Native mobile app supported by Node.js and TypeScript backend services.
    • Improved performance and user experience for a product with 10,000+ active users.
    • Gained end-to-end product experience in a fast-moving startup environment.
Selected work

Outside of work I build small things on the side — sometimes to test an idea, sometimes because I wanted it myself. A few of them below.

Skills

Frontend
React.jsReact NativeJavaScriptTypeScriptHTMLCSSTailwind
Backend & Data
Node.jsC#RESTMongoDBMSSQLSQL
Cloud & Ops
AWSVercelFirebasePostman
Product & Analytics
Product thinkingAnalyticsExcelRoadmapping
AI & Automation
ClaudeOpenAI APIGeminiPrompt engineeringAI tooling
Currently exploring
LangGraphMCP serversEdge inference
Education & Certificates

Degrees
  • Gebze Institute of TechnologyComputer Engineering
  • Anadolu UniversityManagement and Information Systems
Certificates · 17
  • Google IT Support Specialization
  • The Complete Javascript Course
  • Node Js, Express, Mongo DB& More
  • 100 days of Code - 2022 Web Development Bootcamp
  • The Complete Sql Course 2022
  • Vue- The Complete Gude
Contact

Email is fastest — I usually reply within a day.

Mustafa Evleksiz — Product Engineer · Mustafa Evleksiz