Arda Karaduman is a seasoned system architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native and backend systems across startups and enterprise teams in Japan. Currently leading architecture at VELTRA, he blends strong DevOps and backend expertise—sharpened by contributions to Iron.io’s serverless platform—with a track record building APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and embedded IoT integrations. His career spans roles from senior backend work on Rails, GraphQL and Go to low-level IoT and BLE beacon projects, reflecting a rare full-stack-to-edge perspective. A Keio University M.S. graduate with roots in Istanbul, he thrives on solving complex problems, mentoring teams, and turning experimental ideas into production-grade, secure systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Keio University
IronFunctions - the serverless microservices platform by
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:29 commits, 34 PRs, 92 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Arda primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and deployment aspects of the serverless microservices platform. Their work included migrating the project to Go's dependency management, enhancing the `fn push` command, fixing build issues, and refactoring the project structure. They also added features, such as passing payloads to the task runner and integrating JWT authentication, demonstrating skills in API development and security. Furthermore, the user demonstrated DevOps skills through CI/CD integration.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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