Okan K.
Backend Developer
He has significant expertise in designing and developing systems from scratch, bringing a product-focused mindset that adds substantial value to any team.
His commitment to continuous improvement and problem-solving drives his success in every engagement. Okan's deep understanding of Golang enables him to create robust applications capable of handling complex processes effectively.
Main expertise
AWS SQS2 years
Golang4 years
SQL3 years
MySQL3 yearsExperience4
Software Engineer
- Developed features and performance enhancements using Go and Ruby on Rails.
- Led a complex project involving multiple stakeholders, including teams from risk, product, and other technical departments within the engineering group. Successfully delivered the project on time and within scope.
- Transformed parts of the monolithic Ruby on Rails app into a Go microservice in an event-driven manner, enhancing its capability to handle high traffic independently.
- Updated outdated codebases to meet modern development standards, improving overall functionality.
- Collaborated with management, internal teams, and development partners regarding software application design and project progress.
PostgreSQL
Ruby on Rails
AWSGolang
Microservices
Backend Developer
- Developed backend components using Go.
- Re-architected the logging system to prevent identical errors from being re-logged in complex eCommerce projects.
- Implemented automatically generating Swagger documentation for approximately 100-130 endpoints, significantly improving documentation efforts.
GolangMicroservices
DevOps
REST APISoftware Engineer
- Developed backend components using Go and Python, utilizing Kafka for message queuing and PostgreSQL for the database.
- Optimized and enhanced the CI/CD pipeline to support the development workflow.
- Redesigned the architecture of the analytics service, adding proper caching, writing, and ingestion mechanisms, which reduced the average response time by nearly 40%.
- Led the creation of architectural documentation for services, visualizing over 10 microservices architectures.
PostgreSQLGolang
Apache KafkaDevOps
Machine Learning
Software Engineer
- Created a Slack app integrating various online ad platforms (Google, Facebook, TikTok) and designed the application architecture, database tables, and UX design from scratch.
- Implemented Jenkins for CI/CD.
- Developed a streaming data pipeline for clickstream data in Google Cloud with a latency of 5 seconds, using Cube.js for querying and React.js for visualization.
- Implemented Apache Airflow for batch jobs and deployed it on Compute Engine with Docker, creating and maintaining DAGs for various processes.
- Automated the generation of product reports through web scraping of approximately 25 major e-commerce websites in Turkey, using Google Cloud VM with Crontab for automation.
- Led version control efforts and employed GitHub and other open-source repositories for the organization.
- Created various SQL scripts for querying and transporting BigQuery data.
- Documented technical workflows and procedures in a private wiki to educate newly hired employees.
DockerGolang
Python
Google Cloud
BigQueryEngineering excellence
All Backend Developers who have applied to Proxify are scored from 0 to 300 on engineering excellence, one of the five parameters we evaluate. This score reflects engineering excellence only, based on interviews, take-home assignments, live coding sessions, and/or on-the-job performance reviews. The curve shows how all evaluated Backend Developers are distributed across that range, where our acceptance threshold for this parameter sits, and where Okan stands.
Score 173 · Top 18% of engineers
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