Open to collaboration & frontend roles
Mehmet Erdem Akin·CREATIVE FRONTEND ENGINEER
A creative front-end engineer blending product thinking, motion, accessibility, and design systems into high-trust digital experiences.
Creative cockpit
Currently designing
Portfolio systems that feel alive, load fast, and explain the value behind every pixel.
Signal
Frontend craft, UX polish, SEO content
About
A blend of product thinking, UI craft, and dependable front-end delivery.
Frontend
Design
Tools
“Code is poetry written in logic; design is emotion expressed in pixels.”
Experience
From regulated payments to high-traffic consumer flows — focused on clarity, performance, and maintainability.
Enuygun
2024 September - Present
Insurance Team - Development and maintenance of all applications under the insurance domain. Refactoring and rewriting of existing old project structures. Facelift, funnel, admin, offer page developments.
Finartz
2021 November - 2024 August
Worked on 3DS (3D Secure Server) and ACS (Access Control Server) Backoffice projects. Developed complicated management pages, Payment Verification Screens, and multiple authentication methods for React projects.
Univerlist
2020 November - 2021 September
Pixel Perfect and Responsive Design implementation. Worked with Apollo GraphQL, React, Material UI, Formik.
Education
Formal training plus continuous certifications — curiosity backed by structure.
Karadeniz Technical University
Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems
Certifications
A snapshot of courses and credentials that shaped my practice.
Insider
Bilişim Güvenliği ve Bilişim Suçlarına Karşı Mücadele Derneği
İstanbul İşletme Enstitüsü
İstanbul İşletme Enstitüsü
Türkiye Siber Güvenlik Kümelenmesi
T.C. Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı
T.C. Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı
Turkcell Geleceği Yazanlar
Turkcell Geleceği Yazanlar
Turkcell Geleceği Yazanlar
Turkcell Geleceği Yazanlar
Projects
A curated mix of product surfaces, systems thinking, and front-end experiments shaped as proof of craft.
This site — Next.js App Router, Tailwind, theme toggle, and motion tuned for accessibility.
Role
Design engineer
Impact
A personal brand system with SEO-ready content paths and expressive motion.
High-traffic funnels and admin flows — refactors, design system usage, and performance-minded delivery.
Role
Product UI developer
Impact
Sharper flows for complex insurance journeys with reusable UI patterns.
Experiments, tooling, and contributions. Start here for code samples and activity.
Role
Frontend experimenter
Impact
Shows breadth across UI experiments, tooling ideas, and code quality.
Complex backoffice for authentication, monitoring, and verification — role-based UX at scale.
Role
Frontend engineer
Impact
Reduced operational friction across authentication-heavy backoffice flows.
Pixel-accurate layouts with GraphQL-driven data and MUI — early-career foundation in shipping UI.
Role
UI developer
Impact
Built responsive surfaces while learning the discipline of production UI.
Slot for a public write-up: problem, constraints, metrics, and what you would ship differently next time.
Role
Case study author
Impact
Reserved for a deeper public breakdown with metrics and trade-offs.
Field notes
Thoughtful technical content keeps the portfolio discoverable and gives recruiters a deeper proof of expertise.
Portfolio strategy
A practical, SEO-focused guide to turning a personal developer portfolio into a credible product surface with case studies, crawlable content, metadata, and official structured data.
9 min read · Read article
SEO
An official-source-backed SEO checklist for frontend developers building with Next.js: metadata, canonical URLs, sitemaps, robots.txt, BlogPosting schema, and localized pages.
10 min read · Read article
Performance
Learn how LCP, INP, and CLS affect SEO and UX. A practical Core Web Vitals guide for React and Next.js teams with official Google metrics targets.
8 min read · Read article
Contact
Reach out for roles, collaborations, or a thoughtful critique of your design system.
+90 543 473 72 31
Fastest way to reach me
mehmet.erdem.akin@outlook.com
For longer threads & CVs
Ataşehir / Istanbul
Turkey · GMT+3