About Me
Cloud-native engineer with 6+ years of experience designing scalable, high-performance systems that drive business value. Proven track record in cost optimization (e.g., $1M+ annual savings), real-time systems, and cross-platform architecture.
Aug 2021 – Apr 2025
Software Engineer @ OpenText
San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
- Led migration from Cloudera to in-house Vertica database, reducing annual infrastructure costs from $1M to <$100K by cutting node count from 33 to 6 and eliminating licensing fees.
- Improved data platform performance by migrating from Cloudera to Vertica, eliminating timeouts and achieving real-time query responses with minimal latency.
- Engineered and supported a high-volume data pipeline handling over 1 billion records per day; enhanced observability and responsiveness by implementing monitoring and alerting with AWS CloudWatch, reducing downtime and boosting operational efficiency.
- Improved system reliability by implementing automated testing across critical data pipeline components, reducing production bugs by 40% and cutting deployment time by 30%, while increasing test coverage and development velocity.
- Automated static code analysis using Black Duck and Fortify, enabling 100% codebase scanning with every release and reducing manual intervention time by 70%, while ensuring adherence to up-to-date security standards.
- Supported pre-release approval workflows by working closely with management and corporate teams to help ensure smooth and timely code deployments.
May 2019 – Aug 2021
Associate Software Engineer @ Webroot
San Jose, California
- Delivered 20% cost savings and reduced 40 Amazon Kinesis Shards into 8 Shards by improving existing log ingestion pipeline carrying 50M+ user activity logs/hour from S3 to Apache Phoenix.
- Generated 80% decrease in CPU and memory usages of all applications and services, which reduced cost of servers by more than 50% with smaller EC2 instances.
- Filtered 50M rows/hour of log data by developing a fast-responding API.
- Introduced real-time monitoring for all applications and services using Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, Logs, and Alarms, which alerted issues within 2 minutes of occurrence.
- Drove 200% reduction in new feature development time by creating 10+ in-house Nuget libraries.
- Overhauled library packing process by introducing Nuget Package Manager through Gitlab.
- Dropped installation time to 10 seconds for services and apps by creating a package manager.
- Minimized response time for traffic increases by using Amazon SQS for easy scalability.
Dec 2015 – Dec 2016
Software Engineer @ Lisan Educational Services
Istanbul, Türkiye
- Created a framework shared by all applications that reduced development time by 30%.
- Developed a computer-based examination system like TOEFL IBT, which reduced the time to take an exam and get a score by 60% in language schools.
- Increased the front-desk efficiency for language schools by 50% through development of a multi-functional student affairs system.
- Accelerated the development time by almost 100% through training and leading a development team consisting of college students.
- Maintained the company server and allowed deployment of the web applications to be done with just one-click.
- Leveraged the Microsoft BizSpark which dropped the server costs of the company to zero.
Jul 2014 – Dec 2015
Software Engineer @ Partymag
Istanbul, Türkiye
- Developed both Play and App store applications which helped the project make it to the semifinals in a startup competition.
- Led the company to get help in $10000 dollars for advertisement.
- Reduced the workload by 50% through the creation of an admin panel for the team to manipulate app content.
- Leveraged the startup incubator and got the startup accepted to Microsoft BizSpark program without being an official company, which saved over $15000 dollars.
Mar 2014 – May 2014
Software Engineering Intern @ T&G Workshop
Istanbul, Türkiye
- Developed high-quality and reliable e-commerce applications.
- Learned from experienced engineers and leaders while working with an agile cross-functional team.
Aug 2013 – Oct 2013
Intern, Data Entry Clerk @ Alcatel-Lucent
Istanbul, Türkiye
- Got hands-on experience working for a global corporation.
- Worked with a talented team on a high-scale project. Automated all the air coordinators in a massive mall and apartment complex called Zorlu Center.
Jul 2012 – Aug 2012
Intern @ Garanti Bank
Istanbul, Türkiye
- Reduced workload by 10% for HR through the development of a time-off management software.
- Experienced the work environment in one of the leading banks in Turkey.
Jun 2011 – Aug 2011
Intern @ Projesis Yazılım Danışmanlık Ltd.
Izmir, Türkiye
- Self-learned C# in two weeks during the summer break of my freshman year.
- Got hands-on experience of what it's like to work side-by-side with factory workers and non-technical personnel, while supplying support for the company's products.
Tech Stack
Languages
C# Python JavaScript HTML CSS
Frameworks
.NET .NET Core Web API Windows Forms WPF
Databases
Vertica Apache Phoenix EsgynDB MSSql PostgreSql MySQL MongoDB Entity Framework
Cloud & Tools
AWS S3 Kinesis SQS CloudWatch Systems Manager .NET SDK Azure GitLab NuGet ASP.NET
Testing & Security
Unit Tests Integration Black Duck Fortify NUnit
Education
Bahcesehir University
B.E., Computer Engineering – 2016
Istanbul, TurkeyCertifications
Software Engineering & Quality
UCSC Extension, Silicon Valley
Santa Clara, CA, USA