Senior Backend Developer

Contributed to DHC Vision, a flagship project for a German RegTech leader specializing in compliance and digital learning solutions for the financial industry.

In this dynamic environment:

• Contributed to the evolution of the DHC Vision project's tech stack, actively participating in architectural decisions and meetings.

• Successfully navigated the transition from a legacy system to a modern microservices architecture, ensuring system stability and future scalability.

• Spearheaded the implementation of innovative business modules, notably the introduction of "Learning Success Management (Quiz)," elevating the educational capabilities of the platform.

• Demonstrated technical expertise by developing a new microservice from scratch, specifically addressing the critical user licensing component and ensuring crash consistency.

Huawei Technologies is a telecom solutions company that offers infrastructure application software and devices with wireline, wireless, and IP technologies. The company’s products and solutions have been deployed in over 100 countries, serving 45 of the world's top 50 telecom operators and one-third of the world population. Huawei Technologies has 3 divisions in the United States: enterprise (IP networking and routers, wireless, storage, data center security), carrier, and consumer devices (smartphones and tablets).

In my role as Senior Software Engineer and later as a Technical Lead at Huawei, I was responsible for driving the success of Petal Maps projects. My experience spans large-scale distributed infrastructure systems and client-server architecture, allowing me to understand the business impact of the code and effectively communicate technical decisions through design documentation. Throughout the software development life cycle, I played a pivotal role in making major technical approach decisions, starting from requirements analysis and technology solution assessment through architecture, design, coding and testing. As a technical lead, I also took on additional responsibilities, including:

• Interviewing and assessing new candidates to strengthen the team

• Active participation in system design meetings, contributing to architectural decisions.

• Developing backend projects in Golang and Java, showcasing my versatility in multiple programming languages.

• Leading DevOps efforts to migrate the infrastructure from on-premise to Huawei Cloud using tools like Terraform and Docker, improving the efficiency and scalability of the infrastructure.

I continued to mentor and guide junior engineers through pair programming and code reviews. Additionally, I focused on developing tools to streamline development and deployment process.

Misli.com is a membership-based sports betting and lottery website. It enables its users to place bets on sports with a special interest in soccer. The site also offers users to play the national lottery. It was founded on October 2, 2009 and is part of Fold Electronics Gaming and Publishing.

My responsibilities involved close collaboration with mobile and frontend teams to ensure seamless communication and alignment in achieving our goals. Notably, my primary focus was on two critical aspects of the platform’s functionality:

1- Real-Time chat module: I took the lead in architecting and implementing the real- time chat module, a feature that significantly enriched the user experience. This mod allowed users to interact, share insights, and engage in discussions while staying updated on live events, making it a key component for fostering user engagement.

2- Betting Areas: I contributed to the development and improvement of the platform’s betting areas, making them more robust, efficient, and user-friendly. This included optimizing the betting process, ensuring prompt updates on odds, and enhancing the overall betting experience for users.

During my three-year tenure at Fok Digital Agency, I had the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects, enhancing my skills and delivering impactful solutions for our clients. This experience laid the foundation for my career and provided invaluable insights into software development.

I collaborated on several significant projects, some of which include below

• FokApp Developed a platform to bring together digital agencies and their clients. It is developed for using internal clients in Fok Digital Agency. In this project agency can create social media post plans, and clients can give feedbacks, accepts and rejects the plan. My responsibilities are; Make technical decisions, backend and mobile IOS app development, testing, deploying, building CI/CD to automate tasks. Technologies: Java, Swift, SpringBoot

• Peugeot Cycles Dealer Backoffice A back office pages for Peugeot Cycle Dealers. Clients are able to keep record of their sales. Get daily, monthly, yearly reports. Create invoice for their sales. My responsibilities for this project; Maintain the legacy project and at the same time converting old legacy project that written in Php-Laravel to Golang backend. Caching and database tuning for performance improvements. Technologies: Laravel, Golang, Redis, MySql, AWS

• market.sakipaga.com.tr A fully managed e-commerce system. I designed, made technical decisions and developed it from scratch. Built CI/CD pipelines for automated tasks. Tested and monitored the system. Optimized queries for better performance. Technologies: Golang, Java, Spring Boot, VueJs, Redis, Mysql, Kafka, AWS