Kerem Özben

Senior Frontend Engineer

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Skills

Core Stack

Vue.js TypeScript JavaScript HTML5 CSS3 GraphQL Tailwind CSS

Frameworks & Libraries

React Next.js React Native Angular Node.js Capacitor jQuery Bootstrap SASS

Tooling & Workflow

Git Vite Gulp Playwright CI/CD REST APIs

AI-Assisted Development

Cursor Claude Code GitHub Copilot Google Antigravity

Professional Experience

Independent Project

Mobile Game Developer (AI-Assisted) · 12/2025 – Present
  • Designing and building a mobile game solo, working with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code) nearly every day.
  • Built with Capacitor; launching on the App Store shortly.
  • Running an end-to-end, one-person workflow from design and development through to release.

Invicti Security

Senior Frontend Engineer · 10/2021 – 12/2025 · Cybersecurity
  • Led the ground-up frontend rewrite of two products using Vue, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and GraphQL.
  • Worked in a 5-person team on one product and solo on the other, owning every technical decision on the solo project (later discontinued for company strategy reasons).
  • Rebuilt many of the product's screens and contributed to its new design.
  • Drove code review and QA processes to keep code quality high.
  • Mentored junior engineers on the team.
  • Adopted AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity) into daily development over the last 2 years.

Akinon

Senior Frontend Engineer · 01/2021 – 10/2021 · E-Commerce Solutions
  • Maintained and developed multiple client websites.
  • Worked on the UI of the company's internal CMS.
  • Resolved long-standing bugs that had remained open for some time.
  • Optimized critical shared React components (filtering, sorting, pagination) used across multiple sites.
  • Mentored junior developers and took part in code review and QA.

Veripark

Senior Frontend Developer · 11/2019 – 12/2020 · Enterprise Banking Solutions
  • Converted static HTML pages into dynamic React interfaces for Ziraat Bank.
  • Built a React-based interactive game for Akbank over a 3-month period and maintained a SharePoint-based site.
  • Developed halkbank.com.tr on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as part of a 9-person team.

Voden

Senior Frontend Developer · Team Lead · 05/2018 – 10/2019 · Digital Advertising
  • Built 7 websites with HTML, Bootstrap, jQuery, and supporting tools.
  • Integrated MasterPass payment infrastructure into mcdonalds.com.tr.
  • Built complex, multi-step form screens for Tofaş using Vue.
  • Rebuilt the agency's own website with React.
  • Led 2 mid-level frontend developers and 1 senior backend developer.
  • Made the frontend technical decisions for the team's projects.

Doğuş Medya Grubu

Senior Frontend Developer · 11/2017 – 04/2018 · Media
  • Developed the mobile and AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) versions of ntv.com.tr.
  • Carried out performance optimizations across the site.
  • Reduced the initial page load size by 30%.
  • Fixed long-standing UI bugs.

AdColony (formerly Mobilike)

Senior Frontend Developer · 09/2016 – 11/2017 · Mobile Advertising
  • Developed 100+ interactive mobile ads and built a small UI library used to create them.
  • Built playable mobile ads using Opera's JavaScript library.
  • Built mobile campaign sites shown on Foursquare for various brands (Angular frontend, Node.js/Express/MongoDB backend).
  • Built a Facebook game for Samsung using Microsoft's Face Recognition API.

Early Career

Frontend Developer → Senior Frontend Developer → Team Lead · 05/2008 – 08/2016
  • Voden — Senior Frontend Developer · 03/2015 – 08/2016
  • Gri Creative — Frontend Developer · 12/2012 – 01/2014
  • Jetrend — Frontend Developer · 06/2012 – 11/2012
  • Pixelplus Interactive — Frontend Developer → Team Lead · 05/2008 – 06/2012
  • Single-handedly built 80+ websites across advertising, e-commerce, automotive, hospitality, health, and banking using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
  • Built internet banking interfaces for Kuveyt Türk and Fiba Bank.
  • Developed internal CMS interfaces with Angular for multiple agencies.
  • Migrated a legacy Flash site to HTML5/CSS3, preserving all animations to reach mobile audiences.
  • Earned 3 industry awards and 10 nominations for delivered work.
  • At Pixelplus, led 4 junior and 3 mid-level developers (2010–2012) and set the frontend direction for 30+ projects.
  • Introduced modern build tooling (SASS, Gulp, Grunt) across agency teams.
  • Automated asset generation and email-template production, doubling team output.
  • Built interactive data visualizations with Highcharts.

Education

Istanbul University

Computer Programming (Associate Degree) · 2005 – 2007