Asım Arslan
Logistics Product Development Manager at Turkish Technology
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolAsım Arslan is a seasoned software leader with over 20 years in development and 13 years in technical leadership, currently shaping logistics product strategy at Turkish Technology. He blends deep distributed-systems expertise—ten years working on In-Memory Data Grid, protocol and API design—with hands-on fluency in Java, C#, Python, JavaScript and C++. At Hazelcast he led multi-language client teams, initiated a new client binary protocol and contributed transactional recovery and XA support to a widely used open-source real-time data platform. Comfortable in remote-first environments, he has spent the last decade managing distributed teams and shipping production-grade CI/CD, testing and client libraries. Recently he guided an AI-driven reading platform startup, combining generative AI, RAG and semantic search to reimagine educational reading experiences. Known as a pragmatic, detail-oriented problem solver, he pairs engineering depth with product-minded delivery across both enterprise and startup contexts.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesiistanbul kurumsal eğitimBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
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Github Skills (12)
javas10
distributed-systems10
distributed-transactions10
java10
testing10
hazelcast6
jpa6
transaction6
configurations6
sql6
spring6
multicast6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Jul 2013 - Jun 2021
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 418 commits, 239 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Asım's commits focus on testing the rollback functionality of the Hazelcast data structures, specifically for maps and queues. The contributions also involve implementing initial XA (eXtended Architecture) support for distributed transactions, upgrading to version 3.0, and addressing JCA (Java Connector Architecture) related issues for local transactions. These changes include modifying classes to support transaction management and recovery mechanisms.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
asimarslan/hazelcast-python-client
Mar 2016 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 5 months
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