Cihan Dokur
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolCihan Dokur is a Staff Software Engineer based in Mountain View with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient systems and leading architectural transformations. He has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices and introduced event-driven architectures at Betterworks, shaping the core OKR feature and rebuilding databases and migrations from scratch. His background includes real-time, large-scale ad and banking systems that handled hundreds of millions of requests and peak traffic on limited infrastructure, demonstrating a knack for performance engineering and cost-effective scaling. Proficient across Python, Go, C#, Django, NestJs, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes, he blends hands-on engineering with team leadership and operational rigor. Cihan pairs an MBA in Project Management with deep technical roots, enabling him to translate product goals into pragmatic technical roadmaps. Outside work he publishes on GitHub as @iamacod3r, reflecting a sustained coding practice alongside managerial duties.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Project Management at Istanbul UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Software Engineering, Associate of Science - AS Computer Software Engineering at Sakarya UniversityBachelor's degree Business Management, Bachelor's degree Business Management at Anadolu University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (1)
self-driving-car1
Github contributions (5)
iamacod3r/framework
Jan 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
cihandokur/SimpleSurvey
Jan 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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