Summary
Arife A is a Senior Backend Developer with 8 years of experience specializing in .NET Core microservices, secure fintech integrations, and geospatial systems. With a Master’s in Geographical Information Technologies and a background in Geomatics, she uniquely combines GIS expertise with cloud-native backend engineering to optimize location-aware services and telecom applications. She has driven migrations from .NET Framework to microservices, implemented MFA/TOTP, end-to-end encryption, rate limiting, and activity logging for core banking platforms, and improved system performance and security across distributed Agile teams. At Siemens and Turkcell she delivered measurable gains—improving application and spatial query performance by around 30–40%—while also contributing frontend components in React. Currently contracting on FinEdge banking platforms, she bridges domain knowledge and security-first engineering practices to reduce unauthorized access and API abuse. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver who leverages geospatial thinking to inform scalable backend architectures.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geographical Information Technologies, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geographical Information Technologies at Istanbul Technical University
Bachelor's degree, Geomatics Engineer, Bachelor's degree, Geomatics Engineer at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi