denizdurmus
Staff Software Engineer
Senior Software Architect and Tech Lead with 15+ years of international experience engineering and scaling high-availability backend systems, heavily
focused on massive-scale microservices, cloud-native development, and AI integration. Specialized in stripping out legacy monolithic bottlenecks and
restructuring databases to handle immense concurrent load for top-tier tech firms (Agoda, tiket.com).
Sector Focus: Actively partnering with high-growth scale-ups and multinationals in Logistics, HealthTech, Agritech, and E-commerce. Exclusively
targeting companies operating with ethical, socially responsible models (outside of conventional banking, lending, and gambling)
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $100,000
Hourly rate: $100
Nationality: 🇹🇷 Turkey
Residency: 🇹🇠Thailand
Experience
Independent AI Solutions Architect (Sabbatical)
Independent Builder / Micro-SaaS 2023 - 2024
Architected, deployed, and maintained a suite of full-stack, LLM-integrated web applications, including advanced NLP platforms like AI Dream Interpretation and AI Tarot Reader. Handled end-to-end development from database design to prompt engineering and frontend deployment. Designed and launched custom Chrome extensions utilizing advanced DOM manipulation to enhance content accessibility (Anti-Paywall extensions) and automated complex client-side workflows, including LLM-integrated job hunting bots.
Head of Engineering - Payments & Orders
Global Tiket Network (tiket.com) 2022 - 2023
Directed the engineering strategy for the core payments and order management ecosystem, architecting scalable solutions that securely processed massive daily transaction volumes. Led and scaled multiple cross-functional engineering teams. Defined long-term technical roadmaps, prioritized parallel projects, and enforced strict architectural standards that accelerated feature development. Fortified system architecture to handle peak traffic surges. Enforced rigorous performance optimization, data security, and regulatory compliance standards across the payment gateway infrastructure.
Engineering Manager
Zuellig Pharma 2021 - 2022
Spearheaded the critical migration of legacy monolithic systems into a highly scalable microservices architecture, modernizing the digital backbone supporting massive-scale healthcare, telehealth, and pharma logistics. Executed a rapid restructuring of the engineering department, successfully driving a complete transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies to improve delivery speed and flexibility. Facilitated analytics and reporting activities, enabling data-driven decision-making and strategizing technical excellence for regional digital healthcare services.
Solution Architect (Contract)
InfraDigital Nusantara 2020 - 2020
Contracted to execute a comprehensive technical audit of existing and proposed student management and payment platforms, ensuring optimal scalability. Architected and deployed automated, large-scale data ingestion and web-scraping pipelines, streamlining operational workflows for public school databases.
Senior Software Engineer
Mighty Bear Games 2019 - 2021
Researched and prototyped low-latency, high-throughput backend technologies for global multiplayer mobile games, ensuring seamless real-time synchronization and player engagement. Architected and enforced robust Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, drastically reducing deployment friction and streamlining the development process.
Software Engineer
The NetCircle 2011 - 2019
Architected and maintained the core backend infrastructure for search, user feeds, and payment systems, securely supporting a high-concurrency environment of over 8,000,000 active users across multiple social networks. Spearheaded the tech-debt elimination and modernization of the company's legacy monolith, driving a complete transition to a highly scalable, modular microservice-based architecture. Engineered robust fraud detection pipelines and user reputation management systems. Led the technical prototyping of a blockchain-based user engagement and loyalty platform.
Software Developer
32Bit Bilgisayar 2010 - 2011
Implemented and maintained high-availability, real-time data ingestion and transfer tools directly for Thomson Reuters, securing critical data streams for enterprise clients across the MENA region.
Software Engineer
Huawei 2009 - 2010
Supported implementation and maintenance of telecom-grade Value-Added Services (VAS) infrastructure for GSM providers, handling high-throughput mobile traffic across Turkey, the MENA region, and the CIS.
Skills
git
hadoop
java
javascript
kotlin
node
python
web3
english
chinese-mandarin
indonesian
turkish