Summary
Ali Demirsoy is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, event-driven systems and leading distributed engineering teams from Istanbul. He has driven end-to-end delivery of high-throughput, PCI-compliant payment platforms and real-time fraud detection engines, blending strong architecture design with day-to-day coding in Java, Spring, Kafka and AWS. As a tech lead and former founder, he pairs product-facing ownership with a penchant for engineering culture—mentoring, OKRs, observability and DevOps automation. His background spans startups and large enterprises, and he’s comfortable translating complex business requirements into resilient microservice architectures guided by Clean Architecture and SOLID principles. An often-overlooked strength is his early research experience in NLP and semantic retrieval, which informs a pragmatic curiosity for data-driven solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, EMSE double degree program- European Masters in Software Enginerering, Master's degree, EMSE double degree program- European Masters in Software Enginerering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Master's degree, EMSE double degree program- European Masters in Software Enginerering, Master's degree, EMSE double degree program- European Masters in Software Enginerering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Undergraduate, Computer Engineering, Undergraduate, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Spanish