Experience
2024 — 2026
2024 — 2026
San Francisco, CA
• Architected and implemented comprehensive back-end systems for a renowned Turkish restaurant franchise, improving order processing efficiency by 10% using Django ecosystem
• Led technical audits and system optimization initiatives using Django Debug Toolbar and Sentry for performance monitoring, resolving critical bottlenecks while ensuring PCI DSS compliance
• Streamlined development workflow by implementing Docker containerization and orchestration with Docker Compose, reducing deployment time by 20% and system initialization time by 15%
• Designed and engineered RESTful APIs using Django REST framework to integrate point-of-sale systems with third-party delivery platforms, resulting in a 5% increase in online orders
2021 — 2021
2021 — 2021
Zurich, Switzerland
Worked remotely at Radity, which was a corporate member of the Django Software Foundation at the time.
• Leveraged Django and Django Rest Framework to enhance back-end performance, achieving a reduction in query costs and times for admin panel and API endpoints by over 35% through strategic query optimizations
• Implemented critical refactoring efforts, effectively mitigating race conditions by utilizing Django’s F expressions and database transaction commands, thereby ensuring enhanced data consistency and operational efficiency
• Set-up template projects by using Django cookiecutter for future projects, lowering the amount of time required to set up a project and configure it more than 60%
• Optimized Docker processes across multiple internal projects, achieving a 15% reduction in project initialization time and saving 30% more server space
2020 — 2021
2020 — 2021
Istanbul, Türkiye
• Engineered and maintained omni channel commerce solution called Omnitron using Python, Django, and Django REST Framework, driving a 10% improvement in speed of extension integrations
• Combined Celery, Redis, and Elasticsearch to enhance background task management and real-time search capabilities on multiple products, resulting in a 25% boost in analysis performance
Education
English Language Institute, San Francisco
Intensive ESL
Özyeğin University