Fatih Orhan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Udemy
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolFatih Orhan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years building large-scale web and video systems, currently shaping product and platform work at Udemy after a multi-year tenure leading Webex Events at Cisco. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship in Ruby on Rails, Go and GraphQL with operational experience in video streaming, WebRTC, AWS media services and high-traffic e‑commerce flows. Fatih has a track record of designing reliable, production-grade systems—from VoIP platforms processing millions of SMS to live-streaming studios and simulive workflows—while keeping test coverage and observability high. He mentors and grows small senior teams, advises cross-functional stakeholders including sales and customer support, and remains active in code, architecture and postmortems. An open-source contributor to projects like wallabag, he brings practical fixes to widely used tools in addition to enterprise product work. Based in Istanbul, he pairs deep technical breadth with a pragmatic, people-first leadership style that prioritizes stability and continuous improvement.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Business Administration, B.S., Business Administration at Anadolu ÜniversitesiAssociate's degree, Computer Programming, Associate's degree, Computer Programming at Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi
English
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Github Skills (5)
debug10
php10
symfony9
symfony-ux9
self-hosting8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wallabag/wallabag
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
wallabag is a self hostable application for saving web pages: Save and classify articles. Read them later. Freely.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Fatih primarily focused on improving the back-end functionality of the wallabag application. Their commits addressed PHP code issues, including correcting syntax errors, preventing undefined index notices, and modifying the URL generation logic. They also fixed constant problems and addressed issues related to the application's core components like Readability.
read-it-laterread-articlesdjangophpfreely
fatihorhan/openfoodnetwork
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
distributorssupplierstradeconsumers
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