Arda Kuyumcu
Staff Engineer at Lyft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArda Kuyumcu is a Staff Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building and leading engineering teams and infrastructure at Lyft, progressing from software engineer to engineering manager and now staff-level technical leadership. He brings deep backend and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Kubernetes test-infra where he improved cherry-pick approval workflows and test coverage—to optimize reliability and developer workflows at scale. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and people management, Arda has a proven track record of shipping robust systems at high velocity in large, complex environments. He holds dual BSE degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Wharton, blending strong technical foundations with business acumen that helps align engineering outcomes to product and operational goals.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Finance General, BSE Finance General at The Wharton SchoolBSE Computer and Information Science, BSE Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania
Turkish
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
go10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
testing9
k8s9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
json7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/test-infra
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Arda primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project. Their contributions involve modifying code related to cherry-pick approval processes, including adding labels to pull requests and adjusting logic based on pull request actions. Furthermore, they added and updated test cases to support the implemented changes. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and reliability of the testing framework.
test-infrastructuretestinginfrastructurek8s-sig-testingkubernetes
ardakuyumcu/go-github
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Go library for accessing the GitHub API
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
golangapigo-librarygo
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