Cagdas Cirit
Director Of Engineering at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolCagdas Cirit is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native payment and platform systems, currently directing Earner Financials engineering at Uber. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Java, C++11, Android and cryptography with practical leadership of large cross-functional teams across Visa and SAP, driving tokenization, PCI-compliant cloud migrations, and distributed in-memory database work. A proven security specialist (Oracle Certified Java programmer) who has implemented PKI, S/MIME, TLS, LDAP and identity federation in mission-critical products, he also led the security architecture for a national military messaging system. He is experienced in modern delivery practices—TDD, CI/CD, containers, Istio and observability—and in translating research-grade designs into production at scale. Unusually, he pairs enterprise program leadership with teaching experience in Android development and ongoing PhD-level work in software engineering, reflecting a strong blend of technical depth and mentorship. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a pragmatic, security-first mindset to solving complex distributed systems and payments challenges.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of TechnologyPhD Candidate Software Engineering, PhD Candidate Software Engineering at Özyeğin UniversityM.Sc. A Uml Profile for Role Based Access Control Model Driven Architecture, M.Sc. A Uml Profile for Role Based Access Control Model Driven Architecture at Istanbul Technical University
Github Skills (46)
monitoring10
dashboard10
mysql10
synthetic10
data-visualization10
visualization9
health9
analytics9
visualize9
grafana9
composable9
go9
prometheus9
influxdb9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cagdascirit/docker-jmeter
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cagdascirit/docker-tomcat
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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