Cem Catikkas

Cem is a software engineer who enjoys building highly available and reliable software solutions. After studying Computer Science at the University of Washington, Cem joined BlackBerry where he was a key contributor to architecture, design and development of various consumer and enterprise BlackBerry services used by 100M+ customers, such as BIS E-Mail and BlackBerry Enterprise Server. At BlackBerry, Cem led various interdisciplinary efforts to improve quality of legacy and new platforms acting as a liaison between development, testing and operations teams.