Bayram Kiran is a pragmatic Platform Engineer based in Munich with over a decade of experience building scalable, maintainable backend systems using Scala, Java, TypeScript, AWS, Docker and CI/CD. He has progressed from junior roles into technical leadership at AutoScout24, where he designed microservices, created developer tooling to streamline new projects, and mentored colleagues to accelerate onboarding. Bayram emphasizes reliability and developer experience—evidenced by his contributions to the scala-steward project improving test coverage and robustness for automated dependency updates. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he favors simple, practical solutions grounded in strong testing and operational thinking. His background in systems administration and QA gives him a rare blend of production-hardiness and developer-focused craftsmanship.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Informatics, Master of Science Informatics at Universität des Saarlandes
Diplom Computer Science and Engineering, Diplom Computer Science and Engineering at Marmara University
:robot: A bot that helps you keep your projects up-to-date
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:17 commits, 13 PRs, 52 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bayram primarily focused on improving the reliability and maintainability of the Scala Steward bot. Their contributions included writing and extending tests to prevent regressions in the comment update functionality, ensuring the bot correctly ignores comments when updating dependencies. They also addressed issues related to handling conflicts during pull request updates and configuration options, enhancing the bot's usability and stability. Several commits focused on adding and refining automated tests, highlighting a strong emphasis on quality assurance.
:robot: A robot that helps you keeping your Scala projects up-to-date
Contributions:74 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year
up-to-datescalarobotkeeping
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