Umit serves as the VP of Software Engineering for FreeWire. He brings over 20 years of software development and engineering management experience from the digital media and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining FreeWire, Umit was at Triax, an industrial IoT start-up, where he led firmware and software development teams. Before Triax, he oversaw the global software engineering group at Verizon Media developing programmatic advertising platforms for a digital media business with over $1B in annual revenue. Umit also developed mobile software at Motorola and managed product engineering teams at several mobile software start-ups across the globe. He holds a B.S. degree from Bilkent University and M.S. degree from George Washington University, both in Electrical Engineering.