Baris Simsek
Principal Software Engineer at Legion Technologies
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBaris 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
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Affan LisesiBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Karadeniz Technical UniversityMaster's degree Business Administration and Management, Master's degree Business Administration and Management at Altınbaş Üniversitesi
English, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
continuous-deployment10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
groovy10
continuous-delivery10
java10
cicd10
jenkins10
devops10
automation9
kubelet6
jupyter-notebook6
certificate6
amazon-s36
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
barissimsek/gopython
Feb 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
barissimsek/docs
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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