Yağız "Yaz" Erkan in

Yağız "Yaz" Erkan

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Director of Engineering at NinjaOne
📍 Boulder, Colorado, United States

Yağız Erkan is a Director of Engineering at NinjaOne, also working as a leadership coach. With a background as a polyglot programmer and architect, he focuses on building productive and happy technical teams. Recommendations highlight him as diligent, generous, knowledgeable, and a thoughtful team player. He holds an MS from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1.

Outside of his engineering leadership roles, Yağız is a hobbyist beekeeper fascinated by bee biology. He is a community leader and mentor, an avid reader, and enjoys mountain biking, playing the guitar, and creative activities like wood carving in his home state of Colorado.

Interestingly, he enjoys eating honey that his own bees produced nearly a decade ago.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Engineering Leadership
His career is defined by leading and managing technical teams, and he also serves as a leadership coach and mentor for others in the tech community.
IT Management
As a Director at NinjaOne, a unified IT management platform, he is directly involved in creating solutions for endpoint management and asset visibility.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Director of Engineering
NinjaOne
8-2023 - 7-2025
Engineering Director
Insider.
4-2023 - 4-2025
Community Leader
TechYeet
4-2019 - 4-2023
Head Of Engineering/VP of Engineering
Pex
3-2018 - 7-2021
Mentor
Galvanize Inc
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Education
1992 - 1997
Ms
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
1984 - 1992
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