Kıvanç Uslu graduated from the Computer Engineering Department of Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1992 and has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career in 1991 as a System Support Engineer at Probil before running his own company. In 1999, he joined IBM Turkey as an IT Specialist, later serving as IT Architect, CTO, and Cloud Consulting Manager. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as a Senior IT Architect at the IBM Texas Software Lab. After leaving IBM in 2021, he worked at a startup in the virtual events sector, and in October 2022, he joined AWS Turkey as Manager of Solutions Architects.