Self-taught and formally trained at Bilkent University, I've spent 8+ years building backend systems that handle real scale — from a checkout platform serving millions of bol.com customers to greenfield infrastructure at a computer vision startup. I care about well-designed systems, clean code, and shipping things that actually work.

Experience

Software Engineer · bol.com

Oct 2021 – Present

Utrecht, the Netherlands

On bol.com's Optimal Checkout Experience team, building and scaling the checkout platform with Kotlin and Spring Boot. Handles real-time data at scale using Google Cloud Spanner, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow, under strict GDPR requirements.

Software Engineer · StartupHeroes

Jun 2019 – Oct 2021

Istanbul, Turkey

Built infrastructure and features for Migros — one of Turkey's largest retail chains — including a real-time delivery tracking system using Kafka Streams. Managed infrastructure as code with Terraform and Kubernetes.

Software Engineer · Intenseye

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019

Istanbul, Turkey

First engineer at an AI video/image API startup. Designed infrastructure from scratch: Kubernetes, Helm, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, and Akka Streams.

Software Engineer · Sony

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019

Istanbul, Turkey

Global Web Transition — sony.co.uk

Replaced the site search engine across 150+ locales using Scala, Play Framework, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and AWS Lambda.

Customer Information Management — Sony Europe

Migrated codebase to Java 8 / Spring 5 / Spring Boot, converted SOAP services to REST, and moved CI/CD from Bamboo to modern pipelines on AWS.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Technology & Information Systems

2013 – 2017

Bilkent University · Ankara, Turkey

Entrance scholarship (50% tuition) · Best Intern Award at Alictus · Best Senior Project runner-up (L.I.T.S.)