Can Yucel
Software Engineer at Sublime Security
Mill Valley, California, United States
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Top SchoolCan Yucel is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience designing cloud-native, distributed systems and service mesh architectures for companies from startups to scale-ups. He has led platform and traffic initiatives—driving GCP migrations, multi-tenant Kubernetes design, and Istio service mesh rollouts—while growing and mentoring engineering teams. At DoorDash he architected cell traffic infrastructure, migrated from Nginx to Envoy, and saved the company ~$1.3M/year through WAF consolidation and cross-team enablement. His work spans hands-on tooling and open-source contributions, including significant backend enhancements to goaws (an SQS/SNS clone) to improve queue semantics and stability. Based in the Bay Area, he combines practical cost- and reliability-focused engineering with deep experience integrating self-hosted products into complex enterprise environments. Colleagues rely on him to turn ambitious cloud architectures into operable, automated platforms.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at Sabanci UniversityErasmus Informatics and Computer Engineering Department, Erasmus Informatics and Computer Engineering Department at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do PortoBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Engineering at Ege University
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Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
go10
aws10
go-testing10
queuing10
api-design10
restful-api10
queue10
testing10
xml8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Admiral-Piett/goaws
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
AWS (SQS/SNS) Clone for Development testing
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 5 days
Contributions summary:Can significantly contributed to the backend functionality of the `goaws` repository, focusing on implementing and testing AWS SQS-compatible features. Their work included adding support for batch operations (SendMessageBatch) and implementing queue management features such as queue name prefix filtering and dead-letter queue integration. They also addressed race conditions and fixed issues related to the receipt handling mechanism, along with adding queue attributes, increasing the functionality of the SQS clone.
aws-sqstestingsnsaws-sns-sqsaws
canthefason/go-watcher
Oct 2014 - Feb 2018
Watch your .Go files and restart your processes without any configuration hassle
Contributions:7 releases, 73 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 4 months
golangconfigurationwatchercli
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