Bio

Cem Yildirim was the Vice President and Head of Engineering and founding engineer at Fast, where he built the Fast's engineering organization and Fast products, including Fast Checkout. Prior to Fast, Cem was a Senior Engineering Manager at Uber, where he led 12 teams to build a new commerce platform for Uber, increasing the go-to-market speed for Rideshare, Eats, Freight, Jump and external partner businesses. Cem previously worked on Apple's account protection products, including Apple AppleID, Apple Two-Factor Auth and integrations and protection of other products, such Apple Pay, iPhone, Watch,..etc. Cem holds a hybrid Master's degree with Engineering School and Sloan School of Management at MIT in System Design & Management.