Emre Yalvac
Software Engineer at OpenTelemetry
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolEmre Yalvac is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable backend systems for high-traffic e-commerce platforms and search infrastructure. Currently at Trendyol he focuses on designing and tuning large-scale Elasticsearch solutions, optimizing indexing, shard strategy, and relevance to drive fast, accurate search experiences. He has a strong production tooling bent—having initiated in-house APM and load-testing tools at Hepsiburada—and contributes to OpenTelemetry to improve observability and instrumentation across distributed systems. Active in the Rust community in Turkey, he blends systems-level thinking with hands-on work in Couchbase, Node.js, and modern web stacks. Colleagues know him for improving search quality through data-driven relevancy tuning and for bridging product, backend, and observability concerns to deliver reliable services.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bilgisayar Programlama/Programcı, Genel, Bachelor's degree, Bilgisayar Programlama/Programcı, Genel at İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi
İngilizce
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (66)
opentelemetry10
firebase10
realtime-database10
database10
server-sent-events10
browser9
angular9
rust9
opentelemetry-collector9
react9
javascript8
elasticsearch8
actix-web8
nextjs8
typescript8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
emreyalvac/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Contributions:85 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 6 months
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingcollectoropentelemetry
emreyalvac/React-Server-Side-Rendering
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
React Server Side Rendering
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
reactserver-side-rendering
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