Duygu Kutluoğlu Kılıç was born in 1984, in Istanbul. After completing her secondary and high school education at Kadikoy Anatolian High School, she completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Electronic Engineering Department at Istanbul Technical University. She worked as a research assistant in Istanbul Technical University and Koç University, and in Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland from 2008 to 2010. Duygu Kutluoğlu Kılıç, who started her career in the private sector in 2010, worked as a Software Engineer, Solutions Architect and Team Manager in Huawei Turkey, between the years 2010 and 2012. She worked in China for about 1 year for the projects she undertook within this company. In 2012, she began to work in Pozitron, a rapidly growing venture in Turkey, as a Project Manager, and as of 2014, she started working as a Project Management Director within the same company. Duygu Kutluoğlu Kılıç, who founded FineDine initiative with her partner Adil Burak Kılıç in 2015, still serves as a General Manager within this initiative. FineDine is a restaurant technology company with one base in America, serving more than 500 restaurants in 45 countries.