Umut Yurdakök

Developer Team Lead

Umut is a senior technology leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling complex software systems. At iZettle, he played a pivotal role in the company’s growth, serving as Tech Manager and leading multiple engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, core backend services, and large-scale e-commerce initiatives—work that helped shape iZettle’s platform ahead of its acquisition by PayPal. Today, as a developer at Planhat, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, and cloud architecture, with a track record of delivering resilient, customer-critical products on a global scale.

Umut is a senior technology leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling complex software systems. At iZettle, he played a pivotal role in the company’s growth, serving as Tech Manager and leading multiple engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, core backend services, and large-scale e-commerce initiatives—work that helped shape iZettle’s platform ahead of its acquisition by PayPal. Today, as a developer at Planhat, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, and cloud architecture, with a track record of delivering resilient, customer-critical products on a global scale.

Umut is a senior technology leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling complex software systems. At iZettle, he played a pivotal role in the company’s growth, serving as Tech Manager and leading multiple engineering teams responsible for cloud infrastructure, core backend services, and large-scale e-commerce initiatives—work that helped shape iZettle’s platform ahead of its acquisition by PayPal. Today, as a developer at Planhat, he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, and cloud architecture, with a track record of delivering resilient, customer-critical products on a global scale.

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