About

About Volkan Özçelik

It’s me: Volkan Özçelik!
Jack of all Trades, Samurai of JavaScript ;) .

Since 2003, I’ve been doing front-end development on client-heavy AJAX web applications.

Currently, I’m a VP of Technology at GROU.PS, a well-known do-it-yourself social networking platform that allows people to come together and form interactive communities around a shared interest or affiliation.

Before that, I was a JavaScript Engineer at LiveGO, a social mash-up.

Before that, I was the CTO of a business network (cember.net), which was acquired by Xing AG for around 4.2M Euros.

About this Site

volkanozcelik.com is my personal weblog.

Here, I will be mostly talking about:

  • the startup culture,
  • social media,
  • social networks,
  • business networks,
  • networking in general,
  • community building,
  • marketing,
  • and personal development.

We’ll see how things pan out, while this blog evolves as the time goes by :)

For the geek part of me, you may want to consider o2js.com, where you can have technical articles and tutorials mostly on JavaScript.

That’s all about me for now :) .

Cheers,
Volkan