Atakan Yenel
Member Of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAtakan Yenel is a Member of Technical Staff on Microsoft's AI Super Intelligence team with 11 years of engineering experience across reliability, backend systems, and programming language tooling. Previously a Site Reliability Engineer at Google, he brings production-grade operational rigor to large-scale AI systems and cloud services. He has deep hands-on experience contributing to the V programming language core libraries, improving error handling across modules like semver, json2 and vweb to make the standard library more robust and maintainable. Educated at Sabanci University and TUM, he blends strong academic foundations with practical internships and tutoring roles dating back to early undergraduate work. Based in London, he combines systems-level thinking with a curiosity about software behavior—captured wryly in his GitHub bio, "Does this unit have a soul?"—which often surfaces as attention to developer ergonomics and meaningful error messages.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Sabanci UniversityOzel Alman LisesiMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Technical University of MunichComputer Sc, Computer Sc at Universität Passau
English, German, Turkish
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Github Skills (13)
compiler10
vlang10
error-handling10
programming-language10
compiler-compiler10
vue10
visual-studio-code6
raspbian6
go6
javascript6
environment-variables6
python6
fileio6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vlang/v
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Atakan primarily contributed to the V programming language's core libraries, focusing on adding custom error handling to various modules. Their work involved implementing specific error types and integrating them within libraries such as `semver`, `encoding/csv`, `crypto/rand`, `x/json2`, `vweb`, and `flag`. These changes aimed to improve the robustness and maintainability of the V standard library by providing more informative error messages.
dependenciesdevelopingzerotranslationcompiled-language
atakanyenel/kyma
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
A flexible and easy way to connect and extend enterprise applications in a cloud-native world
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
flexibleisolationclusterspcfkubernetes
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