# Tugba Alparslan

> Staff Software Engineer at Clover

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tugba

I am a seasoned engineer with 10+ years of expertise combined in Software Engineering (back-end development, Restful API development, embedded software development) and Technical Project & Portfolio Management. Currently, developing Restful APIs using JAVA and Spring Boot. PMP certified.
Fast learner with very good problem-solving, organization, and communication skills.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Clover
Jan 2026 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Clover
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Founder @ LOVERDURE
Jan 2016 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
Self-owned natural cosmetics and perfumery start-up. Responsible for market research, benchmarking, procurement, product design, formulations, manufacturing, marketing, and sales.

### Software Engineer @ Walmart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Worked as backend software engineer for Walmart’s GoLocal delivery service in the Last Mile Delivery Team.
- Designed and developed API based anti-corruption layer using JAVA, Spring Boot, REST, Kafka.
- Designed and developed the notification module using both synchronous (Rest API) and asynchronous (Kafka message queue) communication. 
- Implemented cache service using Walmart’s internally developed MeghaCache library. Created REST endpoints to manually manage the cache.
- Reduced the time spent for developer tests from minutes to seconds by developing support
APIs for Kafka brokers.
- Instrumented applications to collect and send metrics for better observability. 
- Increased test coverage above 80% by developing unit tests using TestNG and Eclemma.
- Implemented performance tests using JMeter.

### Technical Project Portfolio Manager @ Turk Telekom
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Istanbul, Turkey
- Managed Medium / Large Software projects serving 11 Mn broadband customers aligned with SDLC and PMI methodologies.
- Managed the portfolio of the Technology department: master planning, road mapping, project prioritization, capacity planning, portfolio review, etc.
- Set up PMO processes and improved organization's project management practices - aligned with PMI standards (increased project managers’ efficiency by 15% by redefining roles and responsibilities and increased business analysts’ efficiency by 30% by improving operational handover processes)
- Managed 4 direct reports responsible for technical project management, portfolio reporting, Project and Portfolio (PPM) tool administration, and process improvement.
- Top Performer in the PMO department for 6 years in a row.

### Senior Technical Project Manager @ Turk Telekom
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Istanbul, Turkey
Worked as the project manager and business analyst of 1.5 year long IPTV, Mobile TV, Internet TV channel rating projects. Closed all successfully with participation of 30+ team members.
- Applied all knowledge areas of PMI standards in the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring&controlling and closure processes of the project. 
- Managed multiple vendors simultaneously. 
- Reported the project directly to c-level executives. Outputs are being used for Turk Telekom’s media plannings. 

Other example projects I worked as a Project Manager are:  Early Due Dates, Multiple Bill Cycle, DSL Transfer On Time, Employee Tracking System, Web Services Security Project – IBM Datapower, Churn Project, Bill Layout Arrangement, Churn, Single Sign On, Customer Retention&Acquisition campaigns, VAS services, Wifi Roaming, Pusula (products and services portal), Web Self Care and many other CRM and Infrastructure projects.

### Software Engineer @ Multitek
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Istanbul, Turkey
- Worked as an embedded software engineer for the Multi IPX Software (IP-PBX). Designed,
developed, and tested various PBX modules and Station Message Detail Record (SMDR)
management tool. (Developed in C)
- Developed the Multilingual Web-based Configuration Management Engine that restores and changes PBX configurations in real-time (serialization and live configuration update), and developed the user event logging module. (Developed in C, PHP, HTML, CGI, JavaScript)


## Education
### Extension in Software Engineering
UCLA

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
Karadeniz Technical University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tugbaalparslan

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Last updated: 2026-04-12