Emre Kayan
Founding Engineer at poolside
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEmre Kayan is a founding engineer and backend specialist with 11 years of experience building scalable, service-oriented systems across startups and high-growth companies. He has strong hands-on expertise in Node.js/TypeScript, Go and PHP, and in designing resilient data and messaging layers using PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ and cloud services on AWS and GCP. His work spans the full lifecycle—designing microservices, deploying on Kubernetes/OpenShift, and hardening payment and high-frequency retail platforms for reliability and fraud resilience. After a recent sabbatical he pivoted into mobile app development, shipping consumer iOS apps that combine product thinking with AI-assisted features. Based in Amsterdam, he thrives at early-stage companies where ownership and pragmatic engineering move product and infrastructure forward quickly. Colleagues would note his blend of deep backend craft with an entrepreneurial habit of shipping end-to-end product features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Kadıköy Anadolu LisesiBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, German
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Github Skills (31)
architecture10
coder10
relational-algebra10
documentation9
scalability9
python8
computer-science8
mocking8
gulp-rev8
programming-language8
fundamentals8
testing7
generator7
mocks7
sdk6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
emreler/picbox
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:94 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
emreler/finch
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:146 commits, 3 PRs, 73 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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