Erkan Demirel
Founder at GMentor.AI
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolErkan Demirel is a hands-on founder and senior software engineer with 15+ years building high-scale fintech and crypto systems, from one of the world’s earliest Bitcoin exchanges to mass-market payment and trading platforms. He blends deep backend expertise—low-latency trading, wallets, payments, and reliability—with pragmatic engineering leadership, having driven Papara’s in-app payments and a DriveWealth-backed U.S. stock trading product for millions of users. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and a team lead, he mentors engineers, reviews architecture, and prioritizes shipping performant, secure features to production. An entrepreneur at heart, he’s launched multiple AI gaming startups while living in Riga and is work-authorized without sponsorship, bringing a mix of exchange-level security experience and product-focused delivery to new ventures.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Eastern Mediterranean UniversityScience, Science at Tarsus Mustafa Kemal Anadolu Lisesi
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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signalr
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redis
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azure
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Github Skills (60)
signalr10
wrapper10
redis9
api-platform9
signalr-core9
asp-net-mvc9
api9
exchange9
bitmex9
dependency-injection9
signalr-client9
azure9
rest-api8
dotnet8
bitcoin8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MaDeRkAn/Bitmex.NET
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Wrapper for BitMEX.com REST & WebSocket API
Contributions:4 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 9 days
api-clientapiexchangewebsocketswebsocket
MaDeRkAn/FacebookMessengerBot
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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