Aykut Yilmaz
Software Engineer at Dreamlight Labs GmbH
Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAykut Yilmaz is a software engineer based in Duisburg, Germany with a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and products. He has worked across startups and consulting, most recently as a Software Engineer at Dreamlight Labs after nearly three years as a Full-stack Developer at Nelle & Bendlage. Comfortable from UI design to back-end systems, he contributes to performance and API-focused projects in Rust—most notably extending the popular grammers Telegram client library with features like improved uploads, external media support, and friendly update types. His background in software engineering from University of Duisburg-Essen complements hands-on delivery, code quality improvements, and linting fixes. Aykut blends web design sensibilities with systems-level thinking, often optimizing throughput and developer ergonomics in open-source and commercial code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Software Engineering at University of Duisburg-Essen
German, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (17)
rust-lang10
telegram-api10
api10
rust10
standard-library9
common-library9
c-library9
mtproto8
gnupg6
lifetime6
virtualenv6
linux6
python6
pattern-matching6
git6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Lonami/grammers
May 2021 - Jun 2021
(tele)gramme.rs - use Telegram's API from Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 8 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Aykut focused on extending the functionality of the `grammers` library, which provides a Rust API for interacting with Telegram's API. Their contributions include adding an `attribute` method to the `InputMessage` struct, supporting external documents and photos, and introducing a friendly `Update::InlineQuery`. They also fixed linting errors and improved upload speed performance within the library. The changes indicate a strong understanding of the Telegram API and Rust programming.
apirust-librarytelegram-botrustapi-s
NicKoehler/deethon
May 2020 - Jul 2020
🎵 Python3 library to easily download music from Deezer
Contributions:112 commits in 2 months
pythonpython3-librarypython3deezermusic
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