He was born on January 4, 1987 and graduated from "Football Coach Education section" of "Physical Education and Sports Lyceum" of "Celal Bayar University" and "Business Administration section" of "Social Sciences Lyceum" of "Bahcesehir University".

Cemal Bulbul worked as an intern under the head coach of the "Karşıyaka" (2009-2010) and "Vestel Manisa" (2011-2012) clubs and became an analyst and performance coach at the "Altınordu" academy (2013-2017), and the director (2017-2020) of the "Göztepe" academy and worked match and performance analyst and scouting department (2020-2022) of this club. He has been working as a match and performance analyst, match analyst and scouting trainer at the Turkish Football Federation. He has an UEFA "A" category coaching license.