Ersin Ünkar
Staff Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErsin Ünkar is a Staff Data Engineer based in Berlin with eight years of focused experience designing and operating distributed data platforms and engineering teams across fintech, e‑commerce and identity. He has progressed from Oracle DBA and integration developer roles into senior and leadership positions at companies including Delivery Hero, Zalando and SAP, bringing deep expertise in distributed programming technologies and Apache ecosystem tools. Known for bridging hands‑on engineering with team leadership, he has led data engineering efforts that scale billing, marketplace and personalization pipelines in high-throughput environments. An alumnus of Boğaziçi University in Computer Engineering, he combines low‑level systems knowledge with pragmatic product instincts—often surfacing reliability and cost improvements that aren’t obvious in standard metrics. Currently at Affinidi, he’s focused on building robust, privacy‑aware data infrastructure for identity and credentialing use cases.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English
Github Skills (9)
python-client9
python7
trust6
shieldsio4
messaging4
github1
docker1
data-infrastructure1
data-engineering1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eiunkar/pyNakadi
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Python client for Nakadi
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 39 commits in 3 years
nakadipythonpython3python-client
eiunkar/eiunkar
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Config files for my GitHub profile.
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
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