[Baran Bartu] Demirci

Resume

As a pragmatic, polyglot software engineer, I excel at transforming business requirements into secure, reliable, and resilient products. With extensive experience in complex distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, I have a strong focus on observability to enhance product quality. Additionally, I am a passionate supporter of open-source projects. Last but certainly not least, I am a strong troubleshooter.

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💼 Work History (Recent)

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

• Operating the entire cloud architecture by developing:
• Internal products
• CI/CD pipelines
• Toolkits for secure, reliable, and fault-tolerant service deployment across different stages

• Employing a cellular architecture to mitigate catastrophic events, such as blast radius impacts

• Managing cloud accounts that encompass:
• Kubernetes clusters
• Kafka clusters
• Other resources like databases and caches, all in a cloud-agnostic manner

• Utilizing Kubernetes as the core of our operations, including:
• Actively managing and utilizing Kubernetes clusters
• Developing custom Kubernetes operators to streamline workflows

• Extensively using Golang for:
• Creating Kubernetes operators
• Developing other internal products and services

• Leveraging Bash and Python for scripting tasks

• Building and maintaining Terraform modules to ensure complex processes are stateful and reusable

• Adhering to security and reliability best practices to ensure infrastructure resilience to unexpected events

Senior Software Engineer

• Developed event-driven and serverless microservices

• Implemented regular feature enhancements and addressed complex engineering problems

• Ensured application uptime, security and optimized efficiency

• Managed Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using:
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

• Built advanced automated CI/CD pipelines

Head of Engineering

• Prepared tech interview case studies and conducted 50+ interviews to build a team from scratch

• Worked on application architectures and infrastructures, following best practices to build secure and resilient API services and products

• Worked on complex engineering problems to solve day to day commuting problems

• Led and mentored Backend, Frontend, Mobile Application Development, and Data Engineering teams

• Actively contributed to developing over 12 products with a robust tech stack, including hands-on coding, code reviews, cloud infrastructure management, architecture, orchestration, and automated CI/CD pipelines

• Developed product and technology roadmaps and strategies from concept to launch

• Fostered an engineering culture to motivate the team

• Bridged the gap between tech and management to understand and convert requirements into a working environment

• Improved team performance by setting individual targets with written Work & Development Plans

Lead Software Engineer

• Led a team of 7 backend developers

• Built a high-performance hotel search and booking API through micro-optimizations and using New Relic for observability and troubleshooting

• Developed advanced CI/CD pipelines and proactive alert rules

• Achieved significant optimizations in the search (Elastic Search) and booking module through extensive troubleshooting and debugging with the team

⚒️ Skills

📚 Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

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