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Can Sevim

Senior Product ManagerFintech, Payments & Digital Wallets

Over six years of experience leading 0-to-1 products and scaling digital wallets, payment infrastructure and regulated financial services.

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Career Snapshot

6+ years
In product, fintech and payments
~80,000 users
POCA digital wallet, 0-to-1
1–4 days → ~2 minutes
Ininal digital KYC onboarding
FAST · KOLAS · BKM QR · Open Banking
Payment infrastructure delivered into production

My background includes leading product strategy at Ininal, building POCA's digital wallet from 0-to-1, and working across payment systems and digital banking at Akbank and Aktif Bank.

I focus on complex product environments where customer experience, technology, operations and regulation intersect. Alongside my professional work, I use small side projects to stay hands-on with AI, automation and modern product development tools.

Selected Product Leadership

Ininal

June 2024 – November 2025

Product Management Manager

Led product strategy across digital wallets, prepaid cards, digital onboarding, banking integrations and internal operational platforms.

  • Digital KYC: 1–4 days → ~2 minutes
  • ~20% increase in customer acquisition
  • Company-wide back-office platform
  • Open Banking and banking API integrations
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POCA

July 2022 – January 2024

Product Management Manager

Led the 0-to-1 development and growth of POCA's digital wallet and prepaid card ecosystem.

  • Product launch and growth to ~80K users
  • FAST & KOLAS
  • BKM QR
  • Open Banking
  • Strategic financial integrations
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  • Akbank

    January 2022 – June 2022

    Payment Systems

    Worked on digital payment journeys, activation, engagement and banking product experience.

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  • Aktif Bank

    December 2019 – December 2021

    Payment Systems Innovation & Business Development Specialist

    Worked across digital onboarding, payment products and card ecosystem partnerships.

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Product Leadership Framework

The four areas my product work spans, and the capabilities behind each.

Product Strategy

Setting product direction and roadmap across wallet, card and onboarding products.

  • Product Strategy

    Evidenced by:IninalPOCA

  • 0-to-1 Product Development

    Evidenced by:POCA

  • Product Discovery

Payments & Fintech

Wallet, card and real-time payment products taken into production.

Infrastructure & Regulation

Banking integrations, Open Banking and identity verification built under financial regulation.

Delivery & Scale

Moving initiatives from decision to launch across engineering, compliance, operations and vendors.

  • Stakeholder Management

    Evidenced by:IninalPOCA

  • Vendor Management

    Evidenced by:Ininal

  • Go-to-Market

  • Agile / Scrum

Product Lab

Hands-on exploration of AI, automation and product-engineering workflows. Personal experiments rather than commercial products.

DailyPulse

AI-powered news automation that aggregates and summarizes content from 50+ industry sources into structured daily briefings.

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XPense

A personal finance mobile prototype for expense tracking, subscriptions, net worth and multi-currency management.

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Entarim

An ongoing mobile e-commerce prototype focused on product discovery, categorization and checkout experience.

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Let's talk product.

I'm open to senior product opportunities where I can contribute across fintech, payments, digital financial products and complex 0-to-1 initiatives.

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