Kagan Y.

About Me

Creative Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience in back-end development and site reliability engineering. Worked on a highly available and scalable SAAS product, using over 20+ AWS web services. I base my success on creating user satisfaction through technology solutions that help companies achieve business goals. I also have a keen interest in implementing DevOps practices and implementing clean and reliable code practices.

Backend

Database

DevOps

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Software Engineer
2020 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Create and develop innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

OpsGenie
OpsGenie
Site Reliability Engineer / Software Engineer
2017 - 2020 (3 years)
Turkey
  • Worked as Back-End and Site Reliability Engineer in a TDD, CI/CD, Clean Coding, and Code Reviewing environment. Completed an integrations project of Opsgenie with a couple of SAAS tools like (Jenkins, PRTG, Slack, Splunk etc.)

  • Worked on a Atlassian-Opsgenie Identity integration for a modern incident management platform that operates always-on services.

  • Collaborated on a monolith to microservice conversion, EC2 to EKS conversion. Assisted with the onboarding of junior developers in the company and oversaw product development and performed continuous planning, reviewing and refining the requirements.

Arvento
Arvento
Software Engineer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Turkey
  • Worked on an internal web-application for language packages for a world leading technology company specialized in designing, developing, and manufacturing both hardware and software fleet telematics and asset tracking systems.

  • Built an iOS widget app and connected the HomeKit with the app’s Cloud in order to connect it with Siri.

  • Performed bug fixing for the Health’s Ministry’s call center’s web-page.

Showcase

Main Developer - Jenkins Plugin
Main Developer - Jenkins Plugin
  • A Jenkins plugin notifies users of build and pipeline step failures via OpsGenie.

  • The plugin is configurable through Jobs for defining notification rules.

  • Opsgenie handles alert forwarding to various notification channels (email, SMS, etc.).

Main Developer - Anadolu Sigorta Hackathon Machine Learning App
Main Developer - Anadolu Sigorta Hackathon Machine Learning App
  • A Machine Learning App developed for the Anadolu Sigorta Hackathon.

  • It analyzes targeted user behavior patterns and provides search suggestions and recommendations.

  • The app is used in mobile e-commerce applications and is built with Django (web interaction, API, and user authentication).

Education

Education
BSc in Computer Engineering
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2012 - 2017 (5 years)
Education
Department Of Basic English
Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2011 - 2012 (1 year)