Summary
C Özkan is a Senior Full Stack Product Engineer with a decade in software, specializing in Ruby on Rails and modern front-end frameworks like Ember.js and Vue.js across e-commerce, SaaS, and crypto domains. Currently at Donorbox, he combines backend expertise—Ethereum integration and microservices experience—with practical product delivery in agile teams. He has shipped production systems for smart-home e-commerce, pre-accounting SaaS, and a cryptocurrency exchange, and contributed to the ethereum.rb gem while resolving blockchain integration bugs. With an academic background that includes a PhD track in Mechanical Engineering, he brings strong systems thinking and a knack for automation (home automation enthusiast) to software problems. Based in İzmir, he pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity for Linux, Ethereum, and unexpected cultural touchstones like the '88 Jamaican bobsled team.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Yeditepe University
Exchange student Mechanical Engineering Design Minor, Exchange student Mechanical Engineering Design Minor at Windesheim
Exchange student, Exchange student at Beloit College
English, Russian, Turkish