About
Software Developer from Türkiye. Testing and tooling aficionado. Dad of two, husband of one. Lover of rain and pines (and obviously, lists). Wikipedia addict. Semi-hermit.
Personal
- Born in Bulgaria , living in Bursa , Türkiye (previously İzmir )
- Attended Electronics Engineering but didn't finish
- Was thinking of studying Medicine until the final year of high school (still interested in biology)
Professional
2016 - Current
Working remotely as a senior developer, mostly on the backend with Ruby on Rails.
- Other tech: React, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, AWS, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
- Industries: Construction management, e-commerce, logistics, marketplaces
- Number of users: 1,000 - 10,000,000
- Company sizes: 10 - 5,000
2014 - 2016
Just as I was developing interest in Ruby and Rails, I was invited to join a startup as the CTO and a co-founder: Yemek Guru, a personalized food recipe service.
- Scaled from thousands to millions of subscribers
- Tech: Ruby on Rails, EventMachine, MongoDB, Solr, Capistrano
2007 - 2014
Worked at local web design agencies using PHP, Laravel, ASP, C#, etc.
- Built one of the most popular WHOIS services of the time, manually parsing hundreds of different TLD outputs
- Hundreds of small to medium-sized websites
- "Full-stack" everything - start with PSD files, "cut" them into HTML, sprinkle some JavaScript (often jQuery) and PHP
- Linux server management and whatnot
Before 2007
- Some C, MATLAB, and Linux at the college
- Learned about web dev in high school
- Got interested in programming in middle school (GW-BASIC and QBasic)