Product and Software Development Manager.
Most of my work starts before any code: with an operation that is hard to describe, a request that hides a decision, or a strategy that has not reached the teams yet.
I began as a developer, co-founded and ran a software company for more than eight years, and spent three years leading product and software development in a large cooperative group. Today I build my own products and study for an Executive MBA at Boğaziçi.
Across all of it the route has been the same. A business need becomes a product decision, the decision becomes a system, and the system has to hold up in daily operations.
Four things I developed myself: two software products, and two websites for independent businesses that own and run them.
Start from the question you are facing. Each page explains when the service fits, and when it does not.
Six platforms delivered during my employment, with in-house teams and, in one case, an external supplier. The organisations own and operate them. Each case states exactly what my role was.
Legacy, fragmented store operationsbecameOne integrated retail transaction platform
Enterprise project undertaken during my employment. The platform is owned and operated by the respective organisation; my contribution is described below.
Notes on product decisions, enterprise workflows and how to tell the story of a project honestly.
A Turkish directory of 10 Claude Code skills by other authors, each with a Turkish explanation, its author and its licence.
I started as a developer, building SharePoint workflows and .NET backends for companies whose processes I had to understand before I could automate them. That habit stayed with me. I want to see the work itself before I decide what the software should do.
I co-founded and ran a software company for more than eight years, writing quotes and contracts as well as code. Then I spent three years leading product and software development inside a large cooperative group, with teams to build, a board to answer to and many companies to align.
On paper these roles look different, but the job underneath was the same: turn an unclear operational problem into a decision, and the decision into a system people actually use. That is why I keep leadership, advisory work and my own products side by side. Each one keeps the others honest.
I am not employed at the moment. I am studying for an Executive MBA at Boğaziçi and building my own products. If you are considering a leadership role, have a problem that needs a second opinion, or a product that needs shape, I would be glad to hear about it.
Gönenç TürkekulProduct and Software Development Manager
A leadership role to fill, an operation that needs a second opinion, or a product that needs shape. A few lines about the situation are enough to start.
