Tuğba Çardak

Head of Digital Asset Custody Application Developer
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Tuğba Çardak is Head of Digital Asset Custody Application Developer at Yapı Kredi Teknoloji, a position she has held since April 2025. Her role sits within the Engineering and Technical department at the head level, focused on digital asset custody application development at the banking technology subsidiary.

Prior to this appointment, Çardak spent nearly six years at Yapı Kredi as a Treasury Software Developer, where she worked as a specialist in the Engineering and Technical department from June 2019 to May 2025. Before joining Yapı Kredi, she held a Treasury Software Developer role at Akbank from September 2016 to June 2019, also at the specialist level. Her earlier experience includes a two-month internship in IT investment application development at Akbank and a one-month internship at Uyumsoft Bilgi Sistemleri, a software solutions provider. Çardak holds a degree in Computer Engineering from İstanbul Üniversitesi, where she studied from 2012 to 2017. Her career spans just under ten years in banking technology, with a consistent focus on software development within financial institutions.

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Cansu Yaşar

Smart Automation Solutions Senior Expert - Blockchain / Digital Assets & Custody / CBDC / Digital ID

Cansu Yaşar is a Smart Automation Solutions Senior Expert – Blockchain, Digital Assets & Custody, CBDC, Digital ID at Yapı Kredi Teknoloji, a position she has held since November 2025. Her mandate sits within the Engineering and Technical department at the senior level, covering blockchain infrastructure, digital assets and custody, central bank digital currencies, and digital identity.

Prior to joining Yapı Kredi Teknoloji, Yaşar spent approximately four and a half years at Yapı Kredi bank in a Process Management and Business Development Specialist role, from March 2021 to November 2025, having begun at the same institution as a Process Management and Business Development Intern from October 2020. She also completed a short-term Business Development internship at Yapı Kredi in August–September 2019 and a Process Engineering internship at Akçalı Boya ve Kimya in July 2019. Earlier, she held a brief retail internship at Fiba Retail Group in August 2016. Yaşar holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from Özyeğin University, where she studied from 2015 to 2021.

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