Doğaç Eldenk is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable infrastructure, microservices, and developer tooling across cloud-native stacks. He has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, designed low-latency authorization systems, and modernized CI/CD, Terraform, and JVM dependency ecosystems at Carbon Health while integrating OAuth2 and AWS Cognito with zero downtime. A hands-on backend engineer, he contributed to the widely used Armeria microservice framework (originating from Netty authors), improving gRPC doc generation and developer-facing UI behavior. Passionate about open source and developer productivity, he balances deep low-level systems work with pragmatic product deliveries and has a track record of enabling teams to move fast and safely. Currently based in Evanston, IL, he is pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Northwestern and aims to transition into leadership roles that scale engineering impact.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Northwestern University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.75 / 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.75 / 4.0 at Bilkent Üniversitesi
Your go-to microservice framework for any situation, from the creator of Netty et al. You can build any type of microservice leveraging your favorite technologies, including gRPC, Thrift, Kotlin, Retrofit, Reactive Streams, Spring Boot and Dropwizard.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:177 reviews, 4 commits, 27 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Doğaç primarily contributed to the Armeria gRPC framework, fixing issues related to gRPC documentation generation and enhancing the developer experience. They addressed a bug in the doc generation process, ensuring it correctly handles options and extensions within proto files. The user also implemented features to make parameters and return types collapsible in the documentation UI. Additionally, they made improvements to the doc service, including an overview page and experimental route guessing.
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Contributions:11 PRs, 22 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 5 months
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