Summary
Cengizhan Çalışkan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native microservices across startups and enterprise teams. He specializes in Go and Python for scalable, low-latency systems, with strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, and containerized deployments on AWS and GCP. His work spans search and recommendation systems, event-sourced distributed architectures, and production ML serving—often delivering sub-300ms services and decomposing monoliths into resilient microservices. At Babbel and prior roles he led cross-functional alignment, introduced new infra like Databricks and OpenSearch, and mentored engineers while promoting CI/CD and observability. Based in Berlin, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an R&D mindset and a penchant for tinkering—coffee, gin, and amateur mixology signal a curious, iterative approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Pécs
Associate's degree Computer Programming, Associate's degree Computer Programming at Atatürk Üniversitesi
Turkish, English, French, Spanish, German