Erdem Agaoglu
Principal Software Engineer at Udemy
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolErdem Agaoglu is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, data platforms and real-time analytics. Based in Istanbul, he blends hands-on engineering (Go, Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python) with systems-level infrastructure work—Kubernetes, Ceph, Kafka, Databricks and bare-metal clustering—to deliver resilient, high-throughput services. As a co-founder he drove both technical roadmaps and company operations for video-surveillance data infrastructure, and at Udemy he’s leading AI-enabled assessment and real-time instructor analytics projects that combine Spark, Airflow, GPU/CPU benchmarking and prompt engineering for LLMs. His open-source contributions include performance and reliability improvements to Prometheus’ scraping and HTTP subsystems, reflecting a focus on production hardness and observability. Comfortable spanning ML research to UI delivery, he favors pragmatic architecture choices guided by benchmarks and long-term maintainability.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electronics Engineering at Ankara Üniversitesi
English, Turkish
Github Skills (11)
monitoring10
http-server10
time-series10
go10
prometheus10
performance-optimization10
devops10
networking9
dockers9
docker9
caching8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prometheus/prometheus
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Erdem primarily focused on improving the Prometheus monitoring system's performance and maintainability. Their contributions involved setting read timeouts and connection limits for the HTTP server to prevent resource exhaustion. They also implemented a User-Agent header in the scraping process and added versioning to static file names to prevent caching issues. The user also contributed to build processes by vendoring dependencies.
time-series-databaseprometheus-exporterseries-databasealertingdatabase
agaoglu/pyjasperclient
Mar 2011 - May 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 3 months
pythonsoapjasperserversoap-client
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