Erkan Ay
Software Engineer
Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolErkan Ay is a versatile software engineer with over a decade of experience building backend systems and full-stack applications across startups and scale-ups. He combines strong Python and Golang expertise with hands-on experience in Django, Flask, Celery, and modern cloud platforms (AWS EC2/ECS/S3/RDS), routinely shipping reliable, data-driven services. His background spans event-driven architectures and ML tooling—Scrapy, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn—paired with production messaging and caching (RabbitMQ, Redis, Memcached). At companies like Hopin and Boomset he moved into staff/senior roles, demonstrating an ability to scale systems and mentor teams while remaining deeply technical. Based in Istanbul, he brings a disciplined, methodical approach and a mathematician’s attention to detail informed by studies in Turkey, Lithuania and Russia. Notably, he blends web and mobile UI work (React/React Native) with backend performance tuning, making him effective across the full delivery stack.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
3.27 / 4, Computer Engineering, Turkey, 3.27 / 4, Computer Engineering, Turkey at Karabük ÜniversitesiBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Lithuania, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mathematics and Computer Science, Lithuania at Šiaulių valstybinė kolegijaComputer Engineering, Russian Federation / Russia, Computer Engineering, Russian Federation / Russia at Magnitogorsk State Technical University (MSTU)
English, Turkish, Russian
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Github Skills (19)
wsgi10
pyramid10
webapp10
flask10
werkzeug9
bottle9
python9
micro-framework9
web-development9
web-framework8
viewer8
devstack6
django6
browser5
django-framework5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erkanay/polyglot-quiz
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
erkanay/address-book-api
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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