Experience
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
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
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