VOLKAN YAVUZ

Los Angeles, CA · Full-time

• Replaced the legacy PHP funnel front ends with a React/TypeScript funnel platform on the Symfony backend, built for fast A/B experimentation on a modern codebase and delivery pipeline: the POC lifted revenue 3-12% per funnel, the executive board approved the migration, and the platform now runs hundreds of funnel variants across the company's lending brands.
• Delivered the partner-embeddable version of that platform: affiliates add one script tag to any campaign page and get a branded loan application on their own site. Prototyped the runtime, then built it out with the team, opening a new revenue channel (5-7% lift).
• Built the next-generation white-label platform in Next.js on the Symfony backend to SOC 2 requirements, with a full admin dashboard for internal teams and affiliate partners, a vault for applicant PII, and automated quality gates, so the company can launch new brands quickly.
• Built a standalone A/B testing and feature-flag service with my team, since adopted by other platforms across the company, so every product can test ideas against revenue and roll out only the winners, without a deploy.
• Set technical standards and own release quality across EPCVIP's engineering teams, including the Symfony backend; built the delivery pipeline end to end (CI builds, QA and production deploys through automated pull requests with release notes), giving every release an audit trail.

Los Angeles, CA · Full-time

• Led an 8-person distributed team to ship an LLM-powered customer service chatbot (Vue.js front end, Python/LangChain LLM service, Node.js/PHP microservices on Lambda, Pinecone), cutting customer-service load by roughly 50%, along with the internal prompt-management and reporting tool used to tune it.
• Launched FreePrints Gifts, a brand-new iOS and Android app, from concept to production in under six months: worked with the product department, then architected and led the API build with the mobile developers. The app is now a multimillion-dollar product.
• Built and ran the CMS behind PlanetArt's call center operations (Vue/Nuxt, Laravel/GraphQL on AWS Fargate), scaling automatically with call volume.
• Built the single Laravel REST API that four consumer apps (iOS and Android) share, working alongside a remote mobile team, which eliminated duplicated code and inconsistent behavior across app stores.
• Owned AWS infrastructure, Docker, and Jenkins CI/CD for 50+ regional websites and critical systems, keeping them up through proactive monitoring and deployments.

Los Angeles, CA · Full-time

• Led the modernization of lawyers.com, an SEO-critical property with close to a million monthly users: migrated legacy Angular to Vue.js for 40% faster page loads (Google Lighthouse) and lower bounce rates, and halved API response times with Redis caching.
• Automated Jenkins CI/CD with integrated QA suites, taking deploys from 15 minutes to under 5, and built a Docker dev environment that cut onboarding time 70%.
• Mentored 5+ developers, ran code reviews, contributed to hiring decisions, and authored the team's Confluence documentation.

Jersey City, NJ · Full-time

• Designed, built, and ran Forbes' mission-critical Editorial Tools platform with near-zero downtime for hundreds of editors, contributors, and producers publishing thousands of articles a month (PHP/Zend, MongoDB, Java API).
• Took the platform to external publishers as a licensed product, proving it could run as a commercial offering outside Forbes.
• Led the v2 modernization: replaced Zend with Laravel and moved the front end to AngularJS, cutting backend and UI response times.

New York, NY · Full-time

• Embedded engineer for United Rentals (Fortune 500) at a digital agency: sole developer on the client's CMS, extranet, intranet, and public website (Zend Framework), and the first call for post-launch fixes.
• Built the REST integration to the client's data layer with daily transactional syncs, extended Magento Enterprise against their APIs, ran their load-balanced Linux production environment, and wrote the specs used to train front-end developers.