Emin Kocan
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Belgrade Metropolitan Area Serbia
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Top SchoolEmin Kocan is a software engineer based in Belgrade with five years of experience building scalable web applications and shipping user-focused features. He has delivered end-to-end products and led migrations and redesigns at scale—most notably co-leading a Note system migration of 10M+ records and improving performance for a platform with 50K+ active users while contributing front-end improvements to the well-known OpenStreetMap Rails site. Comfortable across Next.js, React, Node.js and Docker, he pairs hands-on implementation with developer experience improvements like CI fixes and JS testing frameworks. As an instructor he translated practical industry workflows into a bootcamp curriculum, mentoring junior developers into production-ready roles. Energetic about web UX and DX, he blends product-minded front-end polish with backend and infrastructure ownership.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
Turkish, Serbian, English, Bosnian
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Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
openstreetmap9
javascript8
material-ui6
react6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 28 PRs, 156 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and user experience of the OpenStreetMap website. Their work included adjusting the styling of authentication buttons using CSS classes, refining the presentation of elements by incorporating a section divider, and incorporating social sharing functionality. Additionally, they refactored the password field and updated styling to improve the login form.
railsrails-applicationpowersrubyopenstreetmap
kcne/openstreetmap-website
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
Contributions:2 reviews, 12 PRs, 186 pushes in 9 months
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