# Cagri KIRBIYIK Cagri KIRBIYIK is a remote worker on Himalayas, Founder at Ambriel, based in Romania. Source: https://himalayas.app/@cagrikirbiyik ```text Engineering Manager and founder of Ambriel, building compliance intelligence processing 1,000+ risk workflows monthly. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | Romania | | Authorized to work in | Romania | | Salary expectations | 140k+ EUR | | Job categories | Engineering Manager, Technical Team Lead, Software Architect, Software Engineer, Senior Software Developer, Software Developer, Principal Software Engineer, Director of Engineering, Engineering Manager, Software Development Manager | | Skills | Engineering Leadership, Team Building, Hiring, Mentorship, Technical Strategy, System Architecture, Distributed Systems, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, PCIDSS Compliance, Payments, KYC, KYB, AML, Fraud Detection | | Website | https://bencagri.com | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/bencagri | | GitHub | https://github.com/bencagri | ## About ```text At Ambriel, I’m building a compliance-intelligence platform for KYC, KYB, AML, fraud detection, and identity verification. I designed and implemented its event-driven architecture, which processes 1,000+ compliance and risk workflows per month. I also built its data pipelines and storage and search infrastructure, and managed integrations with 20+ external APIs and services. I established the production infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. At TokenInc., I led technical operations and engineering teams during the company’s EU and Romania expansion. I improved microservices architecture for payment systems, reducing incidents by 28%, and oversaw SDKs adopted by 100+ merchant integrations. Earlier, at BBC Studios, I led a team of 25+ through a system architecture redesign and helped reduce database query costs by 35%. Across fintech and marketplace work, I’ve also contributed to payment infrastructure, distributed applications, and REST APIs. ``` ## Experience ### Founder (current) Ambriel. Jan 2026 - Present ```text Leading company vision, technical strategy, and end-to-end execution for a compliance-intelligence platform serving KYC, KYB, AML, fraud detection, and identity verification for global businesses. ``` Skills: Python, Go, NodeJS, TypeScript, PHP, PostgreSQL, Redis, Clickhouse, Typesense, Docker, AWS, CI-CD, Event-Driven-Architecture, RESTful-API-Design, Microservices ### Staff Software Engineer Token Payment Service. Feb 2022 - Mar 2026 ```text Led technical operations and engineering teams for Turkey's leading payments systems provider during its EU/Romania market expansion. Built and scaled a cross-functional backend organization and directed resolution of critical PCI-DSS compliance issues. ``` Skills: Engineering-Leadership, Team-Building, Mentorship, PCIDSS-Compliance, Microservices, Architecture, Incident-Reduction, SDK-Development, NodeJS, Go, PHP ### Software Architect - Co-Founder Krembi. Jun 2020 - Dec 2024 ```text Led architecture and engineering decisions as co-founder of a marketplace platform for booking and paying for Beauty Industry services, spanning 7 sub-projects. Built and operated infrastructure entirely on AWS. ``` Skills: AWS, RDS, PostgreSQL, Elasticache, Redis, OpenSearch, EC2, Amazon-SQS, SES, REST-APIs, Microservices, Payment-Gateway-Integration, Mobile-App-Engineering ### Technical Team Lead BBC Studios. Jun 2021 - Mar 2022 ```text Led modernization of an internal enterprise application in close collaboration with Business Analysts, Project Managers, and the Product Owner. Led a team of 25+ engineers and improved database structure, reducing query cost by 35%. ``` Skills: Team-Leadership, Mentorship, Database-Optimization, Stored-Procedures, Deployment-pipelines, Cross-Functional-Collaboration, Architecture-Design ### Software Engineer XMoney (Formerly Twispay). Oct 2017 - Feb 2020 ```text Built the Twisbox wallet application as part of a 10-engineer team. Designed and built white-label infrastructure and resolved critical PCI-DSS compliance issues. ``` Skills: AngularJS, REST-APIs, Go, Microservices, PCIDSS-Compliance, PHP ### Senior Software Developer Elefant.ro. Feb 2017 - Oct 2017 ```text Rebuilt RESTful API architecture as part of a 20-engineer team, supporting 10,000+ concurrent visitors. Developed PHP7-based integration tools for the Product Information Management (PIM) system. ``` Skills: PHP, REST-APIs, PIM, High-Traffic-Systems ### Software Developer Neptun Software. Aug 2014 - Feb 2017 ```text Built an automation platform for tourism agencies to manage tours, hotel contracts, flight tickets, and accounting. Built a RESTful API for a B2B portal on a LEMP stack. ``` Skills: LEMP, REST-APIs, B2B-Portals, Automation ### Software Developer Modanisa. Apr 2013 - Apr 2014 ```text Built a barcode-driven warehouse management system to streamline goods collection for delivery. Built custom back-office reporting with Excel chart exports for multiple departments. ``` Skills: LEMP, Barcode-Systems, Reporting, Excel ### Software Developer Rey Agency. Jan 2010 - Jan 2013 ```text Developed company websites using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Maintained Linux web servers, email accounts, and FTP infrastructure for clients. ``` Skills: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Linux, FTP ### Web Developer Freelancer. Jan 2008 - Jan 2010 ```text Self-taught PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while building dynamic websites during high school and early university. ``` Skills: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript ## Education ### Anadolu University Bachelor's Degree, Business Management and Administration. 2011 - 2016 ```text Pursued a degree in Business Management and Administration from Anadolu University from 2011 to 2016. ``` ## Tech stack - Ethereum - Amazon EC2 - MySQL - PostgreSQL - MongoDB - Node.js - Laravel - Redis - AngularJS - JavaScript - Python - PHP - Go - Amazon ElastiCache - RabbitMQ - Amazon SQS - Linux - Elasticsearch - Typesense - OpenSearch - Amazon RDS - TypeScript - Amazon SES - Git - Docker - Varnish - NGINX - Clickhouse - LangChain - N8N - Make To contact Cagri, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Gavril Buda](https://himalayas.app/@gavrilbuda): Lead Software Engineer, Freelancer - [Diana Cojocaru](https://himalayas.app/@dianacojocaru1): Software Engineer, Deutsche Bank - [Andrei Radu Iacob](https://himalayas.app/@andreiraduiacob): Senior Full Stack Engineer, Flighthelp - [Mihai Amihailesei](https://himalayas.app/@mihaiamihailesei): Founder & Full Stack Dev, Programeaza.ma SRL - [Vladimir Stan](https://himalayas.app/@vladimirstan): Co Founder & Technical Lead, Imospot.ro - [Elijah Stephenson](https://himalayas.app/@elijahstephenson): Senior Software Engineer, HeroilStrtegiesLLC - [Victor-Andrei Stanculescu](https://himalayas.app/@victor-andreistancul): Engineering Manager, TrustYou - [Bosutar Cosmin](https://himalayas.app/@bosutarcosmin): Senior Full Stack Engineer & Technical Lead, Genuineq - [Dan Platon](https://himalayas.app/@danplaton): Head of Engineering, Fundvis - [Dmytro Varchuk](https://himalayas.app/@dmytrovarchuk): Back end Architect, ZOOP