CTO at WPS MANAGEMENT // wescale

WPS MANAGEMENT needed remote product development at 100+ developer scale to stay steerable without adding another coordination layer. I led 15 cross-functional Scrum teams with FaST Agile, flow signals (cycle time, lead time), and cloud-native architecture on GCP/Azure in a you build it, you run it model. I also covered interim Product Owner responsibility for one team. The setup included internationally distributed freelancers, including Turkey and Cyprus, plus technical alignment with team leads around GKE-adjacent platform responsibility.

The work shifted attention from output steering to better delivery frequency, higher team autonomy, and clearer golden paths. The important part is not the framework. It is that product development can stay steerable even in large remote scaling.

In parallel, I brought AI into daily work early: continuous productive LLM use since February 2023 (starting with GPT-3.5) plus my own role-based assistant and agent workflows in n8n (Assistant node with memory) for recurring engineering, analysis, and delivery tasks. On top of that came MCP connections and Microsoft 365 Copilot (at its core an OpenAI model with Microsoft Graph grounding) in the work environment, plus a few small tests with GitHub Copilot. I also experimented with locally hosted models to weigh privacy, cost, and control trade-offs in practice. This was not tool hype but concrete workload relief with clear boundaries.

• Remote leadership of 15 Scrum teams with 100+ developers without adding another coordination layer
• Led the Agile Coaches team and evolved product ownership, flow, and delivery practices
• Covered interim Product Owner responsibility for one team from problem definition and prioritization through delivery and operations
• FaST Agile implementation: flow signals, team autonomy, golden paths
• Cloud-native transformation (GCP/Azure): Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code
• GitLab/GitLab CI and GKE context in the platform and delivery landscape; operational GKE responsibility sat with the responsible team lead
• Microservices architecture: Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh
• DevOps culture: "You build it, you run it", Cypress tests, automated testing, monitoring
• Compliance governance: first PCI DSS 4.0 draft and recurring alignment with Visa stakeholders
• Distributed organization: integrated internationally distributed freelancers and external capacity into shared quality, review, and delivery standards
• Product thinking: Outcome-focused development, user value measurement
• Team enablement: shared ownership and cross-functional collaboration
• AI in my own daily work (personal productivity and evaluation, not a team-wide rollout): built my own role-based assistant and agent workflows in n8n (Assistant node with memory) and used LLMs productively every day from February 2023 for my engineering, analysis, and delivery tasks; complemented by MCP connections, Microsoft 365 Copilot, small GitHub Copilot tests, and experiments with locally hosted models to assess privacy, cost, and control

• FaST Agile: flow signals, team autonomy, outcome focus
• Scrum: Cross-functional teams, sprint planning, retrospectives
• DevOps: Continuous integration/deployment, Cypress tests, infrastructure-as-code
• Product thinking: User value, impact measurement, iterative development
• Team enablement: shared ownership and golden paths
• AI as a tool: LLM and agent workflows in my own work where they measurably speed up delivery and analysis, with deliberate attention to privacy, cost, and control (including locally hosted models)