Summary
Altuğ Durmaz is a Principal Software Engineer based in Istanbul with nine years of experience designing and delivering production software for startups and high‑traffic e‑commerce platforms. He brings deep hands‑on expertise in Node, Go, React and React Native, a strong grounding in object‑oriented design, design patterns and secure coding practices including PCI‑compliant reviews. Comfortable as a technical lead and coach, he champions refactoring, TDD and collaborative techniques such as ping‑pong and mob programming to raise team quality and velocity. His background spans education tech, blockchain stints, and fast‑paced retail systems, giving him a pragmatic sense for product-driven engineering and release discipline. Colleagues know him as a developer who prefers "black screens"—a hint at his focus on code and tooling over noise—while still communicating effectively in Turkish and English.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Yüksek Lisans (Master), Computer Engineering, Yüksek Lisans (Master), Computer Engineering at Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi