CO-FOUNDER OF DATASAPIEN -- AI & MOBILE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT -- ON-DEVICE & CLOUD AI ENGINEER -- IOS EXPERT -- AGILE COACH -- ORGANISATIONAL MEMORY RESEARCHER
Arda Doğantemur
Istanbul / Turkey
Software architect and engineer with over a decade in mobile development and more than eight years in privacy-preserving, distributed edge data. In recent years, focused on applied AI across the full stack, from on-device inference and edge AI to cloud-hosted LLM systems, designing and shipping AI assistants, agentic workflows, and retrieval-augmented products used at scale by consumer and enterprise audiences. Worked with large enterprises and small startups, delivering more than 50 applications and projects. Deep expertise in LLM integration, prompt and context engineering, model evaluation, on-device model deployment, mobile security, remote configuration, crash and performance management, test automation, continuous integration, and localisation. Teaches Scrum and Agile development to companies and at seminars. Holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Business Administration. Published researcher on personal data and organisational memory. Known for exceptional problem-solving, empathy, patience, and perseverance in helping others solve hard problems.
Education
2025
Patent
2018
Publication
2013-2015
Masters
Bahçeşehir University
I studied Master of Business Administration in Bahçeşehir university. My thesis was Organisational Learning and Corporate Amnesia. I have one publication which is avaliable as hard copy in IGI Global and Amazon.
2005-2011
Bachelor
FVM Işık University
I completed my bachelor's in Computer Engineering. I developed hardware and software connected projects. My thesis was image processing and invisible watermarks.
Experience
2023 - Present
Co Founder & Tech Lead
Data Sapien (London)
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Oversee the technical aspects of software development projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions for product direction, visuals, and experience.
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Lead and mentor a team of software developers, promoting continuous learning and development.
Spearhead the design and review of new features, ensuring adherence to high-quality coding and design standards. -
Facilitate agile development processes, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
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Manage and prioritize the technical backlog, ensuring effective allocation of resources and timely delivery of projects.
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Drive the adoption of technical best practices and coding standards across the team.
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Conduct thorough code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and documentation.
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Collaborate with project managers to develop comprehensive project plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies.
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Identify and mitigate technical and security risks, ensuring robust and secure software solutions.
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Continuously assess and integrate new technologies and tools to enhance development efficiency and product capabilities.
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Develop and maintain comprehensive system documentation and architecture diagrams. (SRS-ADR)
2020 - 2023
Tech Lead
CitizenMe (London)
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Escalate any technical issues, roadblocks or project risks
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Ensure code is documented where applicable or required
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Mentor the developers on the development team
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Lead the daily stand-up or scrum meetings
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Lead the deployments to each environment within the development lifecycle
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Provide technical review of the solution for new features
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Help estimations of the development components required for the entire solution with team
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Work with the project manager to support project plans and correct resource and time allocation.
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Lead the technical best practices and principles and make sure they are adhered to
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Identify technical/security risks and assumption with team
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Management of technical tasks required for the project
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Conducting code reviews for the development team
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Provide and prepare SRS documentation with team
2015 - 2021
Lead Mobile Developer
CitizenMe (London)
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Leading & Developing & Maintaining the Citizenme iOS/Android application.
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Leading Scrum
2015 - 2020
Founder CTO
Timbo ICT
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Leading & Developing Maintaining projects
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Hiring dev team.
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Arrange investors and Due dilligence
2014 - 2015
Senior iOS Developer
Lojika
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Leading & Developing & Maintaining the iOS applications.
2013 - 2014
iOS Developer
Caretta
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Developing & Maintaining the iOS applications.
2011 - 2013
iOS Developer
Done Information Systems
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Developing & Maintaining the iOS applications.
Projects
Cep Trafik Istanbul
Cep Trafik Istanbul is a traffic info service for Istanbul. It shows the traffic information by using the Apple Maps.
Benim YGA Zirvem
Benim YGA Zirvem app developed for YGA conference. It is a second screen questionnaire app that you can rate and comment YGA speakers while they are presenting.
Talking Pictures
Pictures are talking now!!!You can resize, rotate, colorize your writing with smooth gesture moves and add it to your images in the way you want.Capture or pick one from the gallery, double tap to write, select a font, color, size for your writing and place it!
Wifi Haritasi (iOS/Android/BE)
Wifi haritasi is crowd sourcing wifi password sharing platform. Users can share and rate wifi passwords. It also works as offline.