Berker Peksag
Software Engineer
Helsinki, Finland
Summary
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RockstarBerker Peksag is a Helsinki-based software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems, package tooling, and developer-facing infrastructure. A core Python contributor by inclination, he has practical credits across flagship projects like CPython, PyPI (warehouse), pip, setuptools and high-profile libraries such as Django, Jinja2, Gunicorn, Celery and Spotify’s Annoy. He blends code and docs—regularly improving core library documentation, test coverage and packaging metadata—to make complex systems more reliable and approachable. His work spans from performance-minded C++/Python bindings and package installer robustness to web platform backends and deployment tooling, reflecting strong cross-project fluency. Notably, he’s contributed to both user-facing sites (python.org, readthedocs, MDN) and critical developer infrastructure, a combination that helps bridge developer experience and production stability.
15 years of coding experience
Turkish, English
Github Skills (110)
url-routing10
restructuredtext10
python10
testing10
jinjava10
scheduling10
pip10
rest-api10
backend10
flask10
ssh10
javascript10
django10
mdc10
wsgi10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
berkerpeksag/astor
Nov 2013 - Dec 2019
Python AST read/write
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 103 commits, 78 PRs in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Berker primarily focused on improving the Python AST manipulation library, `astor`. Their contributions included fixing Python 3 installation issues by modifying the `setup.py` file and handling `long_description` correctly. They also added setuptools and updated copyright headers. Furthermore, the user implemented PEP8 compliance and updated all the documentation.
astpython-astpythonread-write
python/pythondotorg
Oct 2014 - Apr 2019
Source code for python.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 418 commits, 254 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Berker primarily focused on the back-end aspects of the python.org project, as evidenced by changes across multiple files including `peps/converters.py`, `community/models.py`, and `jobs/models.py`. Their work included updates to formating, handling of user data, and the addition of features such as a new feed for PSF board meeting minutes. The commits reflect a focus on refining and extending the existing functionality of the site's back end.
pythonpython3psf
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