Akin Gundogdu
Irvine, California, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolAkin Gundogdu is a founding engineer and CTO with over a decade of experience building high-performance, backend-heavy fullstack systems that have handled billions of requests. He repeatedly founders and scales startups—currently leading engineering at Musicpal (PianoPal.ai), Movve, DigitalWisers and Smarthronline—combining hands-on coding with product-focused leadership. Proficient across Ruby on Rails, Node/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS, he designs resilient APIs and event-driven architectures for production at scale. Akin uniquely integrates AI tooling into production workflows to accelerate shipping of quality applications, not just prototypes. He has a track record of moving between senior roles at companies like Kajabi and Superpeer while founding multiple products, demonstrating both delivery velocity and operational ownership. Based in Irvine with roots in Turkey, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep systems expertise and a penchant for solving complex distributed systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dokuz Eylül ÜniversitesiBilişim Teknolojileri Uzmanlığı, Information Technology, Bilişim Teknolojileri Uzmanlığı, Information Technology at Selçuk Yaşar Anadolu Teknik Lisesi
İngilizce
Github Skills (48)
deno10
sql-query10
javascript10
sqlite10
postgresql10
query-builder10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
windows10
databases10
typescript10
linux10
dotnet10
asp-net-core10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akingundogdu/getir-case-study
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Code assessment project for Getir Backend software engineer
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
code-assessmentbackendsoftware-engineerassessment-projectassessment
akingundogdu/budget-tracker
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 3 branches in 4 days
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