— AI Platform

Building AI platform capabilities.

— Multi-cloud Datacenter Replication Infra for Oracle Relational DB

✈️ Voluntary Sabbatical After Pandemic

Took a planned break to explore AI/ML technologies, spend time with family, and recharge after the pandemic.

— Release Engineering / Infrastructure

Reduced Etsy.com prod deployment time from 5 minutes to 9 seconds. Managed 2,000+ node production cluster.
Promoted.

Moved to DevOps

Joined IoT Platform Cloud Infrastructure team. First hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Go.

Backend Development

(talent management platform) and (marketing production services).

🇮🇪 Moved to Ireland

Research student at Insight Centre for Data Analytics on a €13M EU-funded project.
Completed Stanford’s Machine Learning course.

First Professional Roles after B.Sc.

Graduated B.Sc. Software Engineering. Worked at TrendPin, CPE Link, and Optimum 7 in various web development roles.

🎓 University, B.Sc. Software Engineering

At Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.

Junior Web Developer

First paid job as a web developer at Smyrna Internet Services and ComTR internet services.

Web Beginnings

Started learning HTML and JavaScript, building first web pages.

🐣 First Lines of Code

Discovered programming through Ultima Online scripting — one of the first MMORPGs.