Destan Sarpkaya is a cloud-native software engineer and employeneur with 14 years of experience building Java and Spring-based systems, currently active in the Netherlands. As co-founder of Kod Gemisi and former CTO of Grispi, he blends entrepreneurship with hands-on expertise in microservices, Spring Boot, Spring Security and Hibernate to deliver resilient backend architectures. He has a track record of teaching and consulting on Java ecosystems and has practical experience across web stacks including React, Node.js/MEAN and legacy JavaEE/JSF. Comfortable moving between technical leadership and implementation, Destan brings a pragmatic focus on production-ready, scalable applications and a curiosity that led him to diverse tools like Qt/C++ and Python.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Computer Science, Erasmus Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at Yeditepe University
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