Summary
Berk Özbalcı is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building and operating backend services for Apple Pay in London. He specializes in designing and running mission-critical, secure payments systems, with deep hands-on experience in microservices, migrations, and sensitive financial-data recovery. At Udemy he helped migrate a large monolith to microservices, modernized frontend revenue reporting, and pioneered OLAP/NoSQL and GraphQL solutions for large-scale revenue analytics. Over four years of on-call responsibility for payments taught him incident management, precise recovery scripting, and clear stakeholder coordination across internal teams and external vendors. He combines an engineer’s attention to maintainability and accessibility with practical ops instincts honed by real-world escalations.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bornova Anadolu Lisesi (İzmir Koleji)
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, Japanese, English