About me

I was born and raised in Niksar, Turkey. My passion for programming began in high school, where I started scripting with ES5 and HTML. This early interest led me to pursue a degree in computer science engineering.

After finishing high school, I moved to Istanbul to study computer science engineering and simultaneously started my career as a software developer, working with PHP 4 and MySQL. Like many PHP developers, I created my own framework before discovering Ruby in 2011, which has been my favorite scripting language ever since.

In 2017, I relocated to Berlin, where I currently reside.

Before joining GitLab, I focused on developing eventually consistent distributed systems, utilizing message brokers like Apache Kafka and Amazon SQS.

In addition to my work as a software developer, I am also a certified scuba diving instructor, an emergency first response instructor, and a technical diver.

I enjoy designing general architecture of systems, implementing abstractions, and solving hard technical challenges/bugs by diving deep even if it takes reading and debugging the source code of the language/VM or DBMS.

Communicating with me

I prefer to communicate through the following methods, in order of preference:

• Gitlab @ mentions
• Slack messages
• Sync zoom calls

Please note that I am not fond of strong opinions lacking substantial background, such as:

• "ActiveRecord callbacks are bad"
• "Database triggers are bad"
• "NoSQL databases are better"
• "Functional programming is better than OOP"

Open source

Current projects

• fast_json/schema: Aiming to write the fastest JSON schema validator for Ruby.
• pry-shell: An extension for pry.

And some others here.

Previous contributions

• Ruby on Rails: Mainly contributed for Rails 5.
• Hadooken: A framework for distributed systems using Apache Kafka written by myself.
• Redash: Some contributions.

Diving deep

Here I am diving deep, but this time not to solve a bug :)