Barkin Simsek
Lead Backend System Engineer at Mujin
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolBarkin Simsek is a Tech Lead Manager for Backend Systems with eight years of experience building scalable, privacy-conscious backend infrastructure from research prototypes to production at Mujin. He combines deep systems engineering—seen in his work on Tor-blocking detection tools, homomorphic encryption research, and large-scale sensor mesh networks—with hands-on leadership of sub-teams and startup founding experience. Barkin has a strong academic foundation from NYU Abu Dhabi and a history of turning research into deployable tools, including a public REST API and dashboard for Tor network monitoring. Comfortable in languages from C/C++ embedded stacks to Python and Node.js, he excels at bridging research, engineering, and product needs to deliver measurable impact. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of instrumenting real-world systems at scale—2000+ sensors in smart farms and extensive data collection for anonymity-network analysis—demonstrating both curiosity and operational rigor.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at New York University Abu DhabiInternational Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at International BaccalaureateHigh School, High School at TEV Inanc Turkes High School for Gifted Students
English, German, Turkish, Japanese
Github Skills (134)
controller10
testing10
automation10
emulation10
robotics10
utm10
jupyter-widget10
deploying10
jupyter10
jailbreak10
jupyterlab-extension10
virtual-environment10
jupyterlab10
planning10
motion-planning10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mujin/mujinwebstackclientpy
Jan 2023 - Apr 2025
Mujin Webstack Client (Python)
Contributions:63 reviews, 22 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 3 months
webstackpythonpython3python-client
A5-015/ramen
Aug 2020 - Apr 2021
Raft Consensus Algorithm Coupled With an IEEE 802.11 Based Mesh Network for Embedded Systems
Contributions:1 release, 209 commits, 28 PRs in 8 months
raft-consensusmeshraft-consensus-algorithmconsensuscoupled
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