Akif Heren
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAkif Heren is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Seattle with nine years of experience building and leading high-performance cloud services at Microsoft. He has deep expertise in Azure Governance, Resource Management and Policy, owning backend systems that serve millions of users and process billions of compliance records daily. Rising from hands-on roles in scalable data ingestion and log analytics to technical leadership, he blends systems-level engineering with team leadership and product-focused delivery. He also co-founded a startup and conducted research in cognitive and nano networks during his master’s at Boğaziçi University, reflecting a mix of entrepreneurial drive and academic curiosity. Akif is known for turning distributed systems complexity into reliable, high-throughput services that scale across global Azure infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, French
Github Skills (77)
testing10
swagger10
rest-api10
openapi10
chromium10
api10
firefox10
rest10
azure10
developer-tools10
node-module10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
javascript9
js-api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cemheren/konvoy.io
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 21 pushes in 1 month
reactnextjskonvoy
cemheren/akifkeyboard
Aug 2018 - May 2022
Open source IOS keyboard with almost full set of features. (Compared to IOS default keyboard)
Contributions:100 commits, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years 9 months
ios-sourcekeyboardios
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.