Alpay Önal
Senior Software Engineer at Hepsiburada
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolAlpay Önal is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable web and data systems, currently driving backend work at Hepsiburada from Istanbul. He has deep expertise across Python, Java, PHP and Go, strong domain knowledge in APIs (REST and SOAP) and integrations with platforms like Stripe, Shopify and GitHub, and hands-on experience with Kafka, Cassandra and Spark for large-scale data pipelines. His background blends backend engineering, data engineering and ML-informed R&D—he led recommendation and web-crawling projects funded by the Turkish National Science Agency. Comfortable from infrastructure to app code, he routinely designs databases, microservices, and CI/Docker-based deployments on AWS. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture choices and for translating research prototypes into production-grade services.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Faculty of Industrial Arts Education / Department of Computer Education, Bachelor’s Degree, Faculty of Industrial Arts Education / Department of Computer Education at Gazi ÜniversitesiBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
Github Skills (13)
endpoint7
flask5
python4
admin4
dashboard3
apache3
monitoring3
analytics3
profiler3
apache-airflow2
golang2
airflow2
microservices2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alpayOnal/mars_rover
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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