Alper Tekinalp is a pragmatic software engineer with 15 years of experience building and optimizing backend systems, currently contributing at Booking.com from Almere, Netherlands. His career spans startups and scale-ups—including Shopify, Numbrs, and ESL FACEIT Group—where he focused on backend development, performance improvements, and targeted bug fixes that keep high-traffic services reliable. Comfortable in production-first environments, he brings a track record of shipping pragmatic fixes and measurable performance gains rather than speculative rewrites. Colleagues would describe him as a steady problem-solver who pairs deep implementation experience with a pragmatic sense for operational trade-offs. Trained in computer engineering, he combines academic foundations with broad real-world exposure across analytics, e‑commerce, and gaming infrastructure.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, 3.2, Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, 3.2 at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
:video_game: A terminal clone of Don't Tap the White Tile, in Go
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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Alper Tekinalp - Software Engineer II at Booking.com