Meriç Melike Softa Yılmaz

Meriç Melike Softa Yılmaz has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Meriç Melike currently works at bunq as a Backend Lead Turkey, starting in January 2023. Prior to that, they were a Local Startup Coordinator at bunq from June 2022 onwards.

Before joining bunq, Meriç co-founded walbit.io in February 2022 and served as a Co-Founder until June 2022.

From March 2019 to June 2022, Meriç worked at Envanterium as the Head of Engineering. During this time, they also worked as a Software Engineer from March 2017 to March 2019. In their role as a Software Engineer, they built the main barcode-scanner and stock control application for Windows CE handheld devices and contributed to the development of the desktop application using Electron with MERN stack technologies.

Meriç also has previous experience at bunq as a Software Engineer from September 2019 to October 2020 and as a Frontend Developer from December 2017 to March 2019. In these roles, they helped develop new features and maintain applications using technologies such as React, PHP, and Backbone.

Before their professional career, Meriç worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Koç University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from June 2016 to May 2017.

Meriç Melike Softa Yılmaz attended Koç University from 2012 to 2017 and obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering & Chemical and Biological Engineering. In 2015, they also briefly studied at Macquarie University, where they pursued a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Chemical Engineering. Prior to that, they attended Istanbul Erkek Lisesi from 2007 to 2012, although no specific degree or field of study is mentioned. Additionally, in September 2020, Meriç Melike Softa Yılmaz obtained a certification in Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging from LinkedIn.