Atakan Arıkan
Engineering Manager at Payrails
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAtakan Arıkan is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building fault-tolerant backend systems and leading cross-functional teams across fintech and data platforms. He has driven high-impact projects—such as Trade Republic’s Positive Interest Rate feature and an EBICS-based multi-bank payments pipeline that processes millions of transactions daily—while shaping mentorship and company-wide hackathon culture. Comfortable hands-on in Java and Python, he also designed subscription and marketplace integrations at Trifacta and led marketplace platform efforts at sennder. Known for turning complex payment and scalability challenges into resilient production systems, he combines a master’s in software engineering with a pragmatic, product-focused leadership style. Less obvious: he repeatedly pairs architectural direction with hiring and team formation, moving organizations from single teams to domain-oriented engineering structures.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Software Engineering at University of TartuBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
893reputation
30kreached
15answers
9questions
amazon-web-services
top-5%
Github Skills (31)
python9
amazon-web-services9
machine-learning9
crud8
auditing8
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
integrate7
neural-network7
django7
cli7
shell6
zsh6
amazon-ec26
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bounswe/bounswe2015group7
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:117 commits, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 8 months
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