Berkay Şahin
Software Engineer at Synnada
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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Top SchoolBerkay Şahin is a software engineer based in Ankara with three years of experience building robust back-end systems at Synnada and Aselsan. He holds a bachelor's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is pursuing a master's in Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University. Berkay contributes to Apache DataFusion, where he refactored core batch processing, fixed union type-casting bugs, and optimized time-based arithmetic—work that improved query engine efficiency in a widely used open-source SQL engine. His day-to-day blends production engineering with low-level data processing improvements, showing a knack for turning algorithmic fixes into tangible performance gains. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who moves clean, maintainable changes through complex codebases.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
İngilizce, Turkish
Github Skills (11)
fusion10
query-engine10
rust10
arrow-keys10
sql10
arrows10
arrow-js10
data-structure9
data-structures9
big-data9
algorithms9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/datafusion
Feb 2023 - Apr 2025
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:333 reviews, 140 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Berkay primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `datafusion` query engine. They removed the `merge_batches` function and replaced it with `concat_batches`, improving data processing efficiency. They addressed and corrected type casting issues in the union functionality to resolve a data integrity bug. The user also implemented and optimized time-based arithmetic operations within the query engine.
querypythonquery-enginedataframerust
synnada-ai/arrow-rs
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
Official Rust implementation of Apache Arrow
Contributions:21 PRs, 66 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years
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