Summary
Emrah Seker is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with nearly two decades of experience building systems from OS kernel components to large-scale distributed services. He has led architecture and orchestration efforts at major tech companies—most notably as tech lead for Uber's open-source Cadence workflow engine—and has driven core redesigns at Box to enable its move to service-oriented architectures. Deeply experienced in durable workflow, data and compute orchestration, Emrah blends low-level systems expertise (kernel, virtualization, C++) with cloud-native service design and operational thinking. He pairs hands-on coding and algorithmic skills from embedded and game-dev roots with a track record of shipping resilient infrastructure used at internet scale. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, shaping long-term architecture, and diving into the internals of novel orchestration problems.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.87 / 4.00, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.87 / 4.00 at University of Washington
Bachelor of Science, Computer Technology and Information Systems, GPA: 3.92 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science, Computer Technology and Information Systems, GPA: 3.92 / 4.00 at Bilkent University
English, Turkish