Baris Simsek
Computer Scientist
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBaris Simsek is a Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View with over 10 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, SRE tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure. He has led SRE and monetization efforts at TikTok, built production-grade DevOps platforms at Workday and Luminary Cloud, and now drives architecture and delivery at Legion Technologies. A former founder and CEO, he blends hands-on systems engineering (Linux, Kubernetes, gRPC, service mesh, Terraform) with product and team leadership across startups and enterprises. His background includes building carrier-grade VoIP and email security products that were acquired, showing a knack for turning infrastructure expertise into commercial outcomes. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Business, pairing technical depth with strategic decision-making. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic automation that simplifies SRE workflows and scales complex adtech and recommendation systems.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
continuous-deployment10
jenkins10
continuous-delivery10
continuous-integration10
devops10
groovy10
java10
cicd10
automation9
linux3
oom2
wikipedia1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
barissimsek/polyp
Feb 2022 - Apr 2026
A Simple TCP Proxy Server
Contributions:7 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
proxy-servertcp-serverproxynpsevent-loop
barissimsek/serce
Jan 2022 - May 2026
Music Development Language
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 4 months
code-golfmojowolfram-languagelanguage-developmentmusic
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