Dünya Kirkali
Engineering Team Leader at Remote
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDünya Kirkali is an engineering team leader and founder based in Leiden with 14 years of experience building and scaling mobile and backend systems across startups and large tech firms. She has led iOS and engineering teams at companies like Booking.com, Dott and Backbase, pairing hands-on development with people leadership and product-minded delivery. A former Director of iOS and serial founder, she blends fintech and consumer product experience with a strong background in media technology and computer science. Her open-source contributions include meaningful enhancements and test automation for the popular Fakery Swift fake-data generator, showing attention to quality and tooling. Known for continuous learning and pragmatic problem solving, she brings both strategic vision and code-level fluency to cross-functional teams.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Özel Tevfik Fikret LisesiMaster of Science (MSc) Media Technology, Master of Science (MSc) Media Technology at Leiden UniversityBSc. Computer Science, BSc. Computer Science at Bilkent University
Turkish, English, French, Dutch, Japanese
Stackoverflow
379reputation
20kreached
1answer
7questions
Github Skills (14)
data-generation10
unit-testing10
swift10
fake-data-generator10
firebase-analytics6
error-handling6
google-cloud-firestore6
mailchimp-api-v36
ios6
mailchimp6
firebase6
grpc6
elixir6
ruby6
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
vadymmarkov/Fakery
Sep 2017 - May 2019
:alien: Swift fake data generator
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits, 10 PRs, 32 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dünya primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `fakery` project. Their contributions involved adding new features like the `ProgrammingLanguage` generator, including methods for name and creator, along with unit tests. Furthermore, the user addressed project structure and corrected dependencies by removing Swift 3 backwards compatibility. They also made a variety of changes in the existing generators, like `Bank`, `Address`, and more, and their corresponding tests.
fake-data-generatorloremalienswiftdata-generator
ahtung/parasut
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:196 commits, 56 PRs, 146 pushes in 22 days
apiruby-gemgemruby
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