Ender Demirkaya, an alumnus of Bilkent University where he also contributed to research projects. Upon graduation, he launched his career as a co-founder of an e-commerce startup in 2008. Then spent many years at Microsoft, Meta, startups, and Uber. He developed expertise in areas including storage, search engines, privacy, growth, open source and workflow engines. He helped build teams and technical communities, organized technical meetups, participated in conferences as a speaker.