Alp Karaca

Software Engineering Manager - Nike @ESW

Madrid, ES

Lead Engineering Manager for Nike’s global frontend checkout platform, responsible for technical strategy, team leadership, and cross-functional delivery across globally distributed teams.• Introduced a modular micro-frontend architecture, reducing CI/CD pipeline duration by up to 30–35%, enabling cross-project component reuse, lowering test maintenance costs, and decoupling deployments for safer, faster releases.• Redesigned the checkout experience by transitioning from a multi-step flow to a streamlined single-page model, resulting in a double-digit increase in conversion rate and improved user satisfaction.• Adopted a Feature Flag–based development workflow, reducing merge conflicts and improving delivery and testing efficiency by approximately 20–30%.• Led the integration of Adobe and Optimizely to enable robust A/B testing, empowering data-driven • • UX decisions and modernizing the experimentation stack.• Implemented E2E and unit testing strategies into CI/CD pipelines, leading to over 50% reduction in production bugs, improved test coverage, and greater release confidence.• Mentored and led a distributed team of 6 frontend engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.• Acted as the key liaison between frontend, backend, QA, product, and UX teams, aligning engineering initiatives with Nike’s global digital strategy.Tech Stack: React, Angular, TypeScript, Nx, Webpack, Node.js, Adobe Target, Optimizely, Cypress, Jest, Azure DevOps, Micro-frontend architecture, Feature Flags

İstanbul Aydin University

Associate of Science - AS, Computer Programming

Bahcesehir University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering