- Graduated from Istanbul Technical University as a Computer Engineer (in 1994)
- 25+ years experience in many aspects of IT, specializing in parallel and distributed computing systems, information security, cryptography, management technologies, and software engineering.
- 20+ years in TUBITAK BILGEM (Informatics and Information Security Research Center) in charge of roles such as developer, analyst, system engineer, lead developer, and manager of various projects for development of national large-scale, distributed systems.
- Pursued academical research under title of Policy Based Management of Parallel and Distributed Computing Platforms.
- Currently, employed as Chief Researcher in Blockchain Research Lab of TÜBİTAK BILGEM.
- Active research topics are blockchain architectures, decentralized identity, blockchain governance