Algün Akgündüz
Senior Software Engineer at AlphaSense
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolAlgün Akgündüz is a Senior Software Engineer based in Helsinki with 11 years of experience building backend systems and scalable APIs, currently focusing on Node.js and GraphQL at AlphaSense. He has a strong microservices and cloud-native background—Redis, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS and ElasticSearch—from prior roles delivering social and e-commerce platforms. At AlphaSense he helps drive API performance and reliability while embracing challenging problems that expand his technical scope. With formal training in computer science and business administration he blends engineering rigor with product-minded thinking, often bridging integration work and infrastructure concerns. Though primarily backend-focused, his track record shows pragmatic full-stack problem solving and a penchant for operationally resilient systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Anadolu UniversityAssociate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Dokuz Eylul University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (20)
nodejs7
opentracing7
jquery6
magento6
ajax6
instrumentation5
mongoose4
jaeger4
mongoosejs4
mongoose-plugin4
microservices4
callback3
aggregates3
plugin3
mongodb3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
algun/algun.github.com
Feb 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes in 10 years
algun/jaeger-nodejs-example
Feb 2020 - Feb 2022
An example of Jaeger instrumentation for Node.js micro-services
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
instrumentationnode-jsnodejsmicroservicesmicro-services
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