Emre Yiğit
Senior Software Engineer II at Hazelcast
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolEmre Yiğit is a Senior Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building backend, web, and concurrent systems, currently contributing to Hazelcast’s real-time data platform. He has strong Java and .NET expertise, having implemented REST API features, diagnostics, and metrics for Hazelcast and developed the Hazelcast .NET client including a LINQ SQL provider. His background spans high-throughput data work at Huawei, data ingestion and analytics for financial compliance, and full-stack projects that drastically reduced bandwidth and operational overhead. A METU computer engineering graduate, Emre combines production-grade distributed systems experience with hands-on API and client development. Notably, he has designed domain-specific query APIs over Elasticsearch and automated CI/CD pipelines, showing an unusual blend of platform-level contributions and developer tooling. Based in Istanbul, he brings a pragmatic focus on observability, reliability, and performance to large-scale data systems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.S. Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.S. Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English
Github Skills (15)
collections10
javas10
api-rest10
hazelcast10
stream-processing10
rest-api10
distributed-systems10
data-collection10
back-end-development10
api-design10
java10
metric10
restful-api10
configuration-management9
caching7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Nov 2021 - Feb 2024
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 13 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Emre primarily contributed to the Hazelcast project by implementing REST API features, including phone-home metrics collection and configuration improvements. They also addressed bugs, such as fixing missing fluent usages in REST configurations and addressing timeout issues to prevent null error messages. Furthermore, the user introduced new diagnostics configuration options and added metrics for new REST endpoints. These changes involved modifications to Java code and configurations related to REST API functionality, diagnostic tools, and overall system behavior.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
emreyigit/hazelcast-csharp-client
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Hazelcast IMDG .NET Client
Contributions:5 reviews, 9 PRs, 575 pushes in 3 years 5 months
dotnetimdghazelcastnet-frameworkcsharp
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