Lemi Orhan Ergin
agile software craftsman
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Lemi Orhan Ergin
agile software craftsman
Profile

Developer, Architect, Coach, Trainer, Leader, Speaker
Lemi Orhan Ergin is the co-founder and Agile Software Craftsman at craftbase.
He took Bs. and Ms. degrees from Marmara University Computer Engineering Department in 2002 and 2005 respectively. He has been actively developing software since 2001. He has worked as software architect, software craftsman, technical leader, team leader, technical coordinator, Scrum Master and Agile coach in dozens of software projects at BYM, GittiGidiyor / eBay and Sony. When he was a managing partner in ACM, he had provided consulting services to dozens of companies. He had led the establishment of agile software cultures, continuity and sustainability in software teams. At iyzico, he was leading cultural transformation of iyzico engineering on top of Agile & Lean mindset and Software Craftsmanship movement.
He has been delivering trainings and seminars on Agile / Scrum, Kanban, Management 3.0, Git, ALM Processes, TDD, Clean Code, Agile Engineering Practices and Software Craftsmanship to hundreds of professionals.
He is addicted to learn new technologies, develop new ideas, construct well-defined structures and teach them to others. He has already attended tens of seminars and conferences as speaker. He is sharing the slides of his talks via SpeakerDeck. His presentations have been already viewed more than 1 million times in internet overall.
He is a big fan of human-centric development disciplines, like agile development. He has a lot of deep experience in agile methodologies (like Scrum, eXtreme Programming and Kanban), agile transformation, software craftsmanship, building agile ALM processes, agile software engineering practices and building a sustainable agile development culture in organizations. He has CSM, PSM1, PSD1, Scrum Master and Kanban Practitioner certificates. He has been working in Scrum teams as Scrum Master, Scrum Team Member and Agile Coach since 2008. He loves to share his knowledge with others. He prepares Scrum trainings and knowledge sharing sessions and enjoy coaching teams in both technical and non-technical aspects.
Application life-cycle management is also his expertise. From build management to release management, from requirement analysis to monitoring, he has worked in all areas of software development. He gives special importance to test driven development, continuous integration, clean code principles and software craftsmanship. He has been doing code reviews in daily basis and coaching juniors since 2005.
He was an active member of Agile Turkey community for 5 years and organization & commuinty lead between 2015 and 2017. Between that period, he involved intensely in the organization of Agile Turkey Summit 2015 and 2016 and CraftSummit 2015 as the product owner role. He is also the founder of Software Craftsmanship Turkey community, i.e. the only Turkish community about Software Craftsmanship. He already organized 200+ free meetups as private and public. He also has been facilitating code retreats since 2013 including the Global Day of Coderetreat.
Even though he shares his knowledge in English in many areas, he believes in the power of learning in native language. Therefore he is sharing his experience about agile development in Turkish via agilistanbul.com with Turkish audience. He was in the team for translating Agile Manifesto into Turkish. He is the official Turkish translator for Software Craftsmanship Manifesto, SOA Manifesto and Disciplined Agile Manifesto.
As a summary:
Lemi Orhan Ergin is a Software craftsman, passionate developer, technical architect, Agile culture cultivator, Agile coach,
Scrum / Kanban practitioner and trainer, Management 3.0 trainer, experienced mentor, engineering
booster, Git trainer and lover, the TDD guy, clean coder, infected with the technical side of Agile,
presentation and visualization freak, non-stop learner, full time apprentice of my masters, the
community guy.
All he wants is to work with you to build a better development culture with both process and technical sides and to see happy faces at the end.
July, 2018
Lemi Orhan Ergin
agile software craftsman
Resume
I've been leading and coaching agile teams for years. My main aim is to build robust, stable, flexible, extensible, high quality software with teams having highly-competent, motivated people in a fast and efficient way. For detailed information, please visit my LinkedIn profile.
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Community
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Software Craftsmanship Turkey
Founder of Turkish Software Craftsmanship Community, 2014-Present
Our aim to improve software developers in Turkey. We aim to organize events and meetups to achieve this important goal. You can visit meetup.scturkey.org for more details.
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Agile Turkey
Community Leader & Product Owner, 2015-2017
We organized more than 50 public and free meetups (aka Agile Buluşmalar) in two years. Also I was the product owner and organization head of Agile Turkey Summit 2015 and 2016 and CraftSummit 2015 conferences.
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Employment
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Cofounder / Agile Software Craftsman
Craftbase (Apr 2018 - Present)
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Agile Practice Lead / Agile Software Craftsman
iyzico (Jan 2017 - Apr 2018)
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Managing Partner / Master Software Craftsman / Agile Coach & Trainer
ACM (Jan 2014 - Dec 2016)
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Technical Architect / Scrum Master
Sony (May 2014 - Dec 2014)
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Solution Architect
Sony (Dec 2013 - May 2014)
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Principal Software Engineer, Technical Lead
Sony (Sep 2012 - Dec 2014)
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Agile Practice Lead
Sony (Sep 2012 - Dec 2014)
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MTS1 Software Engineer
GittiGidiyor / eBay (Mar 2012 - Sep 2012)
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Expert Software Engineer
Sony (Apr 2010 - Mar 2012)
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Technical Coordinator / Scrum Master
Sony (May 2008 - Apr 2010)
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Senior Software Engineer
Sony (Aug 2007 - May 2008)
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Software Officer
Turkish Air Forces (Aug 2006 - Jul 2007)
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Lead Software Engineer
Sony (Oct 2004 - May 2006)
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Software Engineer
BYM (Aug 2003 - Sep 2004)
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Laboratory Assistant
Marmara University (Jun 2002 - Jan 2003)
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Software Engineer
Tüsside (Jun 2001 - Sep 2001)
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Education
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Computer Science Engineering, Ms.
Marmara University (2003 - 2005)
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Computer Science Engineering, Bs.
Marmara University (1997 - 2002)
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Certificates
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Certified Scrum Master (by Scrum Alliance)
I am trained by James Coplien on 2009. Visit my profile from Scrum Alliance website
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PSM 1 & PSD 1 (by Scrum.org)
I got the certificate on 2013. Visit my profile from Scrum.org website
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Certified Kanban Practitioner (by Lean Kanban University)
I attended the accredited training about "Successful Evolutionary Change with Kanban" from Altuğ Altıntaş. Visit the details of the training and the certificate from Lean Kanban University website
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Agile Experience
Managed teams as Technical Coordinator & Team Manager
Worked in Scrum Teams as Scrum Master and Team Member
Coached Extreme Programming principles
Coached teams about Agile Dev. and Software Craftsmanship
Coached teams about Scrum
Coached teams about Kanban/Lean Development
Built full-stack Agile ALM
Worked in Agile Transformation of whole IT department
Used TDD, BDD, ATDD
Used Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment
Trained development teams about Clean Code Principles
Trained development teams about Git in all levels
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Programming Skills
Open Source, Software Design & Architecture
Java, Groovy, Bash, PHP, C, JavaScript
Spring Framework, Ratpack, Grails, Restful Services
Postgres, MySql, Oracle
NoSQL solutions as MongoDB, Voldemort, CouchBase
EHCache, Hazelcast, Lucene, Compass
Mule ESB, MQs, Endeca, Heroku
Git, Linux and MacOS but never Windows!
Lemi Orhan Ergin
agile software craftsman
Publications
Videos
20+ videos of some of my talks are published at Youtube already. You can also access them as below.
Presentations
I upload the slides of my talks to SlideShare. Total number of views of my presentations exceeded 1 million over SlideShare and BusinessInsider. That's huge! If interested, please check SpeakerDeck for details.
Podcasts
My passion is sharing. I started to share my experiences and knowledvia via podcasts. I created my own podcast "Lemi'nin Not Defteri / Lemi's Notebook" and published. If interested, please check Soundcloud or directly start adding RSS feed to your podcast client.
Lemi Orhan Ergin
agile software craftsman
Contact
Contact Info
I am a Turkish guy, originally from my lovely city Izmir, Turkey. I am currently earning my life in Istanbul where living is like fighting with the traffic and chaos everyday.
I have a lovely wife, who is an assistant professor at Marmara University Computer Engineering Department and 2 little boys.
Address: Istanbul, Turkey
Email: lemiorhan@scturkey.org
Get In Touch!
Ask me questions, I love sharing my knowledge and experience. You may understand how eager I am for collaboration from the event list that I attended as a speaker. If you want to access me, please send me an email, or send a message via LinkedIn or Twitter. I will reply you as soon as possible.
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agile software craftsman
Events
Conferences
I love to speak at conferences. I started to visit Europe and Middle East for being in collaboration with regional communities and being involved in conferences.
2018 Women Tech Makers Istanbul
2018 Kodla.co
2018 PhpKonf
2018 DevNot Summit Istanbul
2018 Java Day Istanbul
2018 iTAKE Conference Romania
2017 Dynamics Congress
2017 Java Day Istanbul
2017 DevNot Summit
2017 Gebze Geek Day
2016 GDG DevFest Izmir
2016 GDG DevFest Istanbul
2016 Karabuk Uni. Programming Days
2016 Agile Middle East Dubai
2016 Boğaziçi Uni Tech Summit
2016 Bosnia Agile Day (Keynote)
2015 Voxxed Day Istanbul
2015 Craftsummit
2015 Bilkent Mobile Days
2015 PHPKonf (Keynote)
2015 Boğaziçi Uni. Exit Days
2015 Turk Telekom Agile Summit
2015 Agile Tour Kaunas
2014 Avea Agile Summit
2014 Lean Kanban Istanbul
2014 GDG DevFest Istanbul
2014 Özgür Web Teknolojileri Günü
2014 Php-Ist
2013 GDG DevFest Istanbul
2013 Dynamics Congress
2013 ETohum Developers Day
2013 Int. Workshop on Agile Approaches
Community Meetups
I am a community guy. I participate the events of other communities as well. Here is the list of communities that I spoke in one of their meetups:
GDG Istanbul, IPYD, Agile Turkey, Software Craftsmanship Turkey, Istanbul Coders, Php Istanbul, Gelecek Hane, Scrum Turkey, Agile Coaching Serbia, Code.YapıKredi, Crossover Meetup
Company Seminars
I share my knowledge with companies as well. Here is the list of companies that I already spoke at:
Yapı Kredi Bank, Türkiye Finans, Akbank, Vodafone, KeyFruit, Şekerbank, GittiGidiyor, Sony, Softtech, Turkcell, Mynet, TravelPlanet24, Money Market, Turk Telekom, Garanti Bankası, Kariyer.net, Kliksa
University Seminars
I give 4-5 seminars each year at universities. Here is the list of universities I visited for a seminar:
Marmara, Yeditepe, Boğaziçi, Bilkent, Karabük, Kültür, Gebze, Beykent
Code Retreats
Practicing is the key for mastering software developement. Code retreats are best event to boost practice. Here is the list of code retreat events I facilitated so far:
(Global Day of Coderetreat) GDCR 2014, GDCR 2015, GDCR 2016, Mynet, General Electric Aviation, Sony, Turk Telekom