Başar BallıözProduct Engineer

Engineer by trade.Product builder by habit.

I design, build and ship software end to end: the interface, the mobile app, the backend and the launch. So far, three products of my own.

How I work

“I’ve spent five years on decathlon.com.tr, making key pages 20–30% faster, building shared components and testing changes before they reach every shopper. My own products taught me the rest: designing the screens, writing the backend, getting through store review and answering the first support email myself. I like owning the whole problem.”

EXPERIENCE AT
Decathlon TürkiyePrivia SecurityFibabankaLTS Information SystemsDecathlon TürkiyePrivia SecurityFibabankaLTS Information Systems

Selected work

Three products I designed and built on my own. Two are live with real users; the third is getting ready for the stores.

RPMBase

A digital garage for the car you own

Service history, fuel, mileage, expenses and documents in one place. The garage screen answers one question, what should I do next, and an assistant answers questions from the car's own records and reads receipt photos into entries.

Platforms
iOSWeb
Role
Solo: design, engineering, launch
Languages
English, Turkish, Spanish, German

What I built

  • Product, UI and brand design
  • iOS and Android app in React Native and Expo
  • Next.js marketing site in four languages, with guides and calculators
  • Node.js API with Firebase authentication
  • AI assistant grounded in each car's records, plus receipt scanning
  • Free and Premium plans with monthly quotas

RPMVault

Motorcycle garage and catalog

A full-stack platform for riders: keep the bike you own in a digital garage, and research, compare and request offers across a catalog of 18,000+ models. The web side is built for search, with a page for every model.

Platforms
WebiOSAndroid
Role
Solo: design, engineering, launch
Catalog
18,000+ models

What I built

  • Next.js web platform with an SEO architecture for 18,000+ model pages
  • Side-by-side comparison and ride-character scores
  • Digital garage: service, fuel, mileage and ownership costs
  • iOS and Android app in React Native
  • Node.js API with AI answers about each bike
  • Offer requests that turn research into leads

Tibblo – Pocket Pet

Virtual pet game for families · current project

Ten pets to adopt and raise, a home and a garden to decorate, a little town to explore and 15 gentle mini-games. Built for children and the parents who hand them the phone: no ads, no account, no tracking, fully offline, and a grown-up check before every purchase.

Platforms
iOSAndroid
Role
Solo: design, engineering, launch
Status
Preparing for store review

What I built

  • Game design, economy and UI for children aged 6 and up
  • All art drawn from scripted SVG parts; sound and music synthesized in code
  • Store billing, Play Games and iCloud cloud save, local reminders
  • Google Play Families setup: no ads, no data collection, parent gate
  • English and Turkish, with accessibility settings throughout
  • Automated test suites for layout, economy and saves
Also built Javelin Sentry · Monitoring and uptime tracking A lightweight monitor for uptime, latency and system health, with real-time logging. javelin-sentry.vercel.app ↗

Experience

Building large-scale e-commerce at Decathlon Türkiye since 2021.

Mar 2024 – now

Software Development Engineer

Decathlon Türkiye
  • Lead frontend development and performance work on decathlon.com.tr and the company's omnichannel in-house apps.
  • Cut bundle size and reworked code splitting and production builds, making key conversion pages load about 20–30% faster.
  • Built shared UI components in an NX monorepo used across several applications.
  • Ran A/B tests with Statsig on Click & Collect, Ship-from-Store and returns journeys.
  • Developed InOut, a real-time evacuation and staff tracking system used in 40+ stores and HQ.
  • Worked across analytics, monitoring and delivery: GA4, GTM, Amplitude, Datadog, GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP and Kubernetes.
Sep 2021 – Mar 2024

Junior Frontend Developer

Decathlon Türkiye

Built and maintained features for a large-scale e-commerce platform.

2020 – 2021

Internships

Decathlon Türkiye · Privia Security · Fibabanka · LTS

Frontend, DevOps and IT.

2017 – 2022

B.Sc. Management Information Systems

Kadir Has University (transferred from Işık University)

Let's talk.

Roles, collaborations or questions about my apps. I read every message and usually reply within a couple of days.

support@ballioz.com