Selcuk K.

About Me

👨‍💻 Full-Stack & AI Engineer with 10+ years of experience<br>🇹🇷 Founder of Turkey’s largest ongoing JavaScript community<br>⚛️ Expert in React, Next.js, Node.js, and modern TypeScript stacks<br>🧠 Experienced with OpenAI, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering<br>🏗️ Built and scaled intelligent web apps at Atlassian, Zenni Optical, Remote.com & OpsGenie<br>⚙️ Strong background in backend systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures<br>💾 Skilled in PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and real-time data processing<br>☁️ Deployed production-grade systems on AWS with CI/CD pipelines<br>🎯 Passionate about building beautiful UIs, efficient workflows, and AI-powered automation

AI, ML & LLM

Frontend

Backend

DevOps

Workflow

Other

Work history

Casebender
AI / Full Stack Engineer
2025 - 1
  • Integrated OpenAI GPT models to generate contextual case summaries, automate alert triage, and correlate threat data in real time.

  • Designed dynamic AI workflows that trigger automatically via PostgreSQL event hooks when new cases or alerts are created.

  • Built a streaming chat interface in Next.js, providing analysts with interactive, context-aware AI responses.

Zenni Optical
Frontend Team Lead
2023 - 2025 (2 years)
  • Established objectives to offer team members clear roadmap to help company achieve overall goals.

  • Stayed current on industry trends by attending conferences, workshops, webinars, reading articles/blogs related to emerging technologies in frontend development space.

  • Developed reusable UI components to streamline development processes and ensure a consistent look across multiple platforms.

Atlassian
Staff Frontend Engineer
2018 - 2023 (5 years)
  • Contributed to and owned projects, helped the team through code reviews, and mentored other engineers.

  • Worked with React.js, Redux, react-sweet-state, styled components, Figma, and AWS.

  • Maintained an active role in project development and team support.

OpsGenie
Engineering Manager
2018 - 2018
  • People management - Be an active contributor and owner of the projects for which the team is responsible.

  • Help the team by doing the right code reviews.

  • Be able to mentor other engineers in the team.

OpsGenie
Senior Frontend Developer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
  • Be an active contributor and owner of the projects for which the team is responsible.

  • Help the team by doing the right code reviews.

  • Be able to mentor other engineers in the team.

Remote.com
Senior Frontend Developer
2017 - 2017
  • Be an active contributor and owner of the projects for which the team is responsible.

  • Help the team by doing the right code reviews.

  • Utilized technologies such as Angular.js, SCSS, AWS, and Sketch.

Public Procurement Authority
Frontend Developer
2009 - 2017 (8 years)
  • Be an active contributor and owner of the projects for which the team is responsible.

  • Developed using C#, ASP.net, Angular.js, React Native, and CSS.

  • Utilized Photoshop for design-related tasks.

Meteksan System
Frontend Developer
2007 - 2009 (2 years)
  • Be an active contributor and owner of the projects for which the team is responsible.

  • Developed applications using C#, ASP.net, Adobe Flash, and CSS.

  • Used Photoshop for image editing and design tasks.

Showcase

Senior Front-end Developer
Senior Front-end Developer
  • Developed a recruitment platform for globally based, remote jobs

  • Wrote HTML and CSS (less) from Sketch Files using Angular.js

  • Utilized technologies such as Angular 1.x, LESS, and Python

OpsGenie
OpsGenie
  • Developed OpsGenie, an alert and on-call management solution for dev & ops teams using technologies like Angular 1.x, React.js, Vue.js, LESS, Python, Java, Go

  • Converted Sketch Files into HTML and CSS (less) and developed apps using Angular.js and Vue.js

  • Wrote unit tests with Karma and Jasmine, and developed internal apps using Vue.js and Firebase

Senior Front-end Developer
Senior Front-end Developer
  • DevFactory applies manufacturing principles to software services delivering high quality work at reduced costs

  • Worked as a Senior Front-end Developer; writing HTML & CSS from Sketch Files, using Angular.js for app development, and unit tests with Karma and Jasmine

  • Technologies used include Angular 1.x, SASS, and Python

Education

Education
Bachelor of Science: Information Management
Hacettepe University - Ankara
2003
Education
High School Diploma
TED Ankara High School - Turkey
1999