I design systems that think, scale, and deliver.

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years building backend systems, data platforms, and production LLM features — from ad platforms serving 6B+ impressions a month to retail AI.

9+
Years
60K+
Screens
6B+
Impressions / mo
RAG & Agentic LLM Workflows
Microservices at Scale (CQRS/EDD)
Forecasting & Recommendation Systems
AWS, GCP & Azure

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What I can build for you

From AI-powered solutions to scalable cloud architectures — end-to-end engineering services tailored to your business needs.

AI & LLM Systems

Production LLM features that work with your own data: RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and multi-provider integrations — with the tracing and evaluation needed to trust them.

RAGLangGraphMCPpgvector / QdrantLangfuse

System Design

Scalable microservice architectures with DDD, CQRS, and event-driven patterns — the kind that kept a 6B-impressions-a-month ad platform running.

MicroservicesCQRSgRPCEvent-DrivenDDD

Data Engineering

End-to-end pipelines from ingestion to insight. Batch and real-time processing, ETL orchestration, and the forecasting and reporting services built on top.

AirflowPySparkDatabricksKafkaBigQuery

Cloud Architecture

Cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure with containers, IaC, CI/CD automation, and observability for reliability at scale.

AWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraform

GIS & Geospatial

Location intelligence from satellite imagery to geofencing and route-based targeting for moving screens. Master's degree in geodesy and GIS.

PostGISH3Tile38GeoServerGDAL

Technical Consulting

Architecture reviews, performance audits, mentorship, and build-vs-buy calls for teams scaling their systems.

Architecture ReviewPerformanceMentorshipStrategy

Selected Work

Real projects, real impact. Here's how I've solved complex engineering challenges across industries.

Retail Assortment Planning

Retail AI
Challenge

Retailers need to decide which products to carry, in which stores, and in what depth — across thousands of SKUs and locations.

Solution

Services for store clustering, SKU optimization, and localized assortment recommendations, backed by SKU–store level demand forecasting and product recommendation on PySpark and Databricks.

Impact

Scenario-based planning tools that turn real-time demand signals into assortment and buy-plan decisions.

PythonPySparkDatabricksAirflowgRPC

Tech Stack

Languages
PythonGolangJavaScriptNode.jsReact
AI / LLM
Anthropic Claude APIOpenAI APILangChainLangGraphLlamaIndexMCPpgvectorQdrantLangfuseHugging FaceVertex AITensorFlowOpenCV
Backend
FastAPIDjangoFlaskgRPCCeleryNginx
Data
PostgreSQL / PostGISMongoDBRedisElasticsearchBigQueryDuckDBCassandraKafkaRabbitMQPub/SubSpark / PySparkAirflowDatabricks
Cloud
AWSGCPAzureDockerKubernetesTerraform
Observability
GrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetryNew RelicSentryJMeter

Career Journey

2025 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

invent.ai
Retail AI

Merchandise Assortment Planning team. Building services that help retailers decide which products to carry, where, and in what depth — store clustering, SKU optimization, and SKU–store level demand forecasting and recommendations.

2020 — 2025

Senior Software Engineer

FIREFLY
AdTech / Mobility DOOH

Built APIs and core services for a platform running 60,000+ vehicle-top screens across 7 countries with 6B+ monthly impressions: inventory forecasting, campaign management, reporting, and geospatial targeting on event-driven CQRS microservices. Mentored 3 junior engineers.

2019 — 2020

Software Engineer

ZINGAT.COM
Real Estate Tech

Built web scraping, database, and API systems for business intelligence products. Improved CI/CD and ETL pipelines and the recommendation system's user behavior processing.

2017 — 2019

GIS / Remote Sensing Developer

ITU CSCRS
Satellite & Research

Satellite imagery and geospatial data pipelines, OGC-standard APIs, a backend for deep learning labeling, and image processing optimization.

Education
M.Sc. Geodesy & GIS
Gebze Technical University, 2019–2022
B.Sc. Geomatics Engineering
Kocaeli University, 2013–2017

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