Hello, I’m Bilal, engineering manager who has senior full-stack web development experience. I’ve built and helped teams building pixel-perfect web sites and apps in reliable architecture. Started programming in 2006, working in the field professionally for about 12 years now. I’ve led web development teams for over 6 years. Currently living and working remotely in Turkey for 9 years.
I’ve been proudly using WordPress in a huge number of cases that clients and companies need, since I started my first professional journey in 2012. I started testing and using WP even before.
I’m the father of two beautiful girls. Love spending time and traveling with them.
This is the first version of my website/blog. I’ll be continuously improving and adding content and features here.
My Hobbies
- Biking
- Working on electronics + 3D Printing
- Home automations, Homelabbing
- Fixing anything at home
- Reading tech updates
- Amateur photography
- Watching best movies
- Listening wordless music
- Travelling
My Fun Facts
- I love categorizing, standardizing, automatizing and arranging anything
- Anything like from my home to my daily work
- Maybe that’s why I love lists, especially the ordered ones (<ol>)
- I respect creative designers a lot
- I like butterflies only if they are far away from me
- Don’t have a TV and I almost never watch or read news, but I’m still aware of what’s goin’ on around somehow
- I like to have only two color sets of goods at most: Navy Blue & Black/White
- Clothes, watches, shoes, couches, phone, car, bag, anything…
My Motivators
- Solving a problem that’s never been solved by other people
- Working with people smarter than me
- Seeing the team I lead as started being independent to me
- Seeing my large scale project plan works well and very few changes needed until the end
- Seeing my project is being used and loved by thousands of users, and their life become easier with that
- Providing more by writing less on documentations
- Deleting codes, much more than I wrote
- Getting any kind of constructive feedback
- Seeing appreciation after my efforts
My Ideal Development Environment & Priorities
- Secure
- Available/Performant
- Fast
- Easy to use & manage
- Integrated
- Extendable & Componentized
- Easy to develop
- Standardized
- Tested
- Maintainable
- Backed up & Revertible
- Automatized
- Documented
- Simple & Efficient structure
- Monitorable
- Scalable
- Accessible & Compliant
- Globalized & Localized
- New & reliable technology
- Open Source
Want to work together?