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Hazelcast is headquarted in Palo Alto, CA with R&D office in Istanbul, Turkey. Our focus is on developing the best open source clustering and highly scalable data distribution platform on the market.

  • Talip Ozturk, Founder, Managing Partner

    Talip Ozturk is the founder of Hazelcast and Hazel Ltd. He has been working with enterprise Java since 1999. He worked as a consultant at MIC (Virginia), developer at a start-up company, Syncline (Boston) and sales architect at Itochu Technologies (New York). In 2003, he got fascinated by Jini and developed an implementation of JavaSpaces. In 2008, his passion for distributed programming led him to develop Hazelcast. Before Hazelcast, Talip was the director of technology at Zaman Media Group (Istanbul). In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer.

  • Fuad Malikov, Co-Founder, Managing Partner

    Prior to joining Hazelcast, Fuad worked on J2EE projects as a technology consultant in financial and telecom industries. He was an IT architect at IBM, developing J2EE based core-banking system for one of the biggest banking transformation projects in Europe. Prior to IBM, Fuad worked on various telecom companies developing J2EE and Oracle PL/SQL applications. He has attended several Mathematics Olympiad Competitions. He won three gold medals at national Maths Olympiads and a bronze medal at 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), USA. Fuad holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.

  • Eric Reuthe, Business Development and Consulting

    Prior to joining Hazelcast, Eric was the Vice President of Product Engineering and Chief Architect at edō Interactive in Nashville, TN, a market leading platform provider to financial institutions and merchant advertisers. He has over 10 years of experience in CTO and CIO roles in business and financial services and consulting to Fortune 1000 companies. Before falling in love with the software engineering and information technology world, Eric worked in technical marketing for a number of medical device and biotech companies. He is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Philosophy and studied Applied Computer Science at Harvard University Extension.

  • Mehmet Dogan, Architect

    Before joining Hazelcast, Mehmet was senior software developer at Zaman Media Group. Since 2005 he has been working with Java. Mehmet worked on several J2EE projects and participated in the development of ERP, CRM and CMS applications. Also he developed Single Sign-On and Virtual-POS Client systems. He ranked 40th (out of over million people) in national university entrance exam in 2001. Mehmet holds a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from Fatih University. He has been a committer of Hazelcast since 2009.

  • Enes Akar, Developer

    Enes has worked for as a Software Developer in telecom companies like Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson. With his entrepreneurial spirit, he is the founder of Android development groups; Androturk and Andronom. Enes is a chess master with degrees on tournaments. He has joined Hazelcast as he believes distributed computing should be "deadly simple" just like Hazelcast fights for. Enes holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering and MBA degree from Bogazici University, Istanbul.

  • Ali Gürbüz, Developer

    Ali leads the development of Hazelcast Queue, Multimap and Collections. He also participates in the design of other data structures and services in Hazelcast. Prior to joining Hazelcast, Ali was Project Leader at MRD where he led the design and development of Single Sign-On and Cloud File System projects at TTNET and Turk Telekom. As a senior software developer at Zaman Media Group, he worked on several J2EE projects and participated in development of Editorial System. Ali ranked 42th (out of over million people) in national university entrance exam in 2001. He hold s a BS degree in Electronics Engineering from Fatih University, Istanbul.

  • Mustafa Sancar Koyunlu, Developer

    Sancar leads the design and development of Hazelcast Serialization, C++ client, Management Center and Hazelcast Topic. Before joining to Hazelcast crew as a full-time developer, Sancar did internship at TUBITAK and Hazelcast. Sancar holds a BS degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. When he is not coding, he enjoys playing video games and table tennis.

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