Summary
Elif Salman is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with nine years of experience building production software across research and industry settings. She transitioned from academic research and teaching at Koç University—where she worked in an optical microsystems lab—to hands-on engineering roles at startups and enterprise teams, bringing strong problem-solving and experimental rigor to product-focused development. At Amazon she progressed from SDE I to SDE II, demonstrating the ability to ship scalable systems in a large, high-velocity environment. Educated at Boğaziçi University (BS) and Koç University (MS), she pairs formal engineering training with applied research experience, which often surfaces in pragmatic, measurement-driven approaches to design. Based in Istanbul, she blends distributed systems practice with a researcher's attention to instrumentation and validation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Koç University
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Boğaziçi University
Spanish, English, Turkish