Summary
Ali Akın is a Senior Backend Developer with 10 years of experience building time-sensitive, high-throughput systems and migrating monoliths to microservices. He has led payment-focused backend initiatives at CHECK24, designing DDD-aligned APIs and a dedicated credit card processing service that helped prevent duplicate transactions and saved the company roughly €70–80k annually. Expert in PHP (Symfony, Laravel), Docker, Redis, MySQL (Percona) and CI/CD with a strong emphasis on automated testing (Codeception, PHPUnit), he consistently improves performance and reliability by 10–30% across projects. Comfortable across the stack, he has also built reusable PHP libraries, WebSocket solutions, and improved proprietary frameworks for substantial efficiency gains. Based in Mainz, Germany, he mentors junior engineers and drives engineering culture toward robust testing and deployable designs. His background blends startup agility with enterprise-grade payment work, giving him both hands-on implementation skills and systems-level architectural judgment.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Kocaeli University
Turkish, İngilizce, German