Anıl Sürmeli
Engineering Manager at Canva
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAnıl Sürmeli is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams to deliver scalable, distributed systems across fintech, e-commerce, and SaaS. Currently at Canva and formerly leading payments and mortgage decisioning platforms, he blends hands-on solution architecture with people leadership, growing teams and improving developer happiness. He specializes in microservices, DDD, TDD, event-driven systems and observability, and has driven high-throughput infrastructures (Kafka at 7k updates/sec and handling 256k req/sec during peak events). Comfortable across .NET, Python, Node and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), he introduced domain events and enterprise API designs to improve cross-team collaboration and operational insight. An active technologist who contributes to open-source and writes about engineering, he pairs pragmatic engineering practices with a creative side in music production. Based in Sydney, he focuses on aligning technical ownership to business goals while mentoring engineers through measurable career growth.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University Northern Cyprus CampusMaster of Science (MSc) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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15answers
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Github Skills (137)
sanic10
bilstm10
corpus9
chameleon9
entity9
tokenizer9
python-web9
api9
voice9
api-client9
api-platform9
nunjucks9
medical9
rest-api9
brat9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skynyrd/cikilop
Feb 2018 - May 2018
Easy data migration for MongoDB using Python.
Contributions:19 commits, 10 pushes in 2 months
pythondata-migrationdatabasemigrationmongodb
skynyrd/linux_staff
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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