Alper Akgun
Full Stack Engineer - Agentic Coding at GitLab
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAlper Akgun is a seasoned Full Stack Engineer with 15 years of experience building growth, marketing, and AI/ML features at scale, currently focused on agentic coding at GitLab. He combines deep backend expertise in Ruby on Rails, Python, and Node/Express with modern front-end skills in Vue, JavaScript and TypeScript, and is fluent across multiple databases including Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. His career spans hands-on roles from CTO of startups to Staff Engineer at GitLab, where he has driven MLOps, remote dev workspace, and growth initiatives. Trained in physics, electronics and business (MBA), he bridges rigorous technical problem solving with product and GTM sensibilities. Outside work he prototypes playful experiences—evident from his GitHub project "zestoy - create, play, share"—reflecting a maker’s instinct for user-facing experimentation. Based in Istanbul, he thrives on turning complex systems into pragmatic, production-ready features.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA MBA Finance & Marketing, Master of Business Administration - MBA MBA Finance & Marketing at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (66)
mobile-web10
javascript10
phaser10
rendering10
webgl10
canvas10
500px9
fitbit9
foursquare9
game-development9
desktop9
facebook-instant-games9
2d-game9
eventbrite9
music8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alperakgun/dm-paperclip
May 2017 - Jan 2024
DataMapper port of the Paperclip plugin by Thoughtbot
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 9 months
paperclipdatamapperthoughtbot
sayarus/esnek
Apr 2011 - Apr 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 3 pushes in 10 years 1 month
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