Ferhat Sobay
Founder at Sebula
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolFerhat Sobay is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling from Istanbul. He founded Sebula after early engineering roles at MKK and Sony, and briefly cofounded SuggestGrid, demonstrating a blend of entrepreneurship and enterprise experience. Ferhat has deep hands-on expertise in search and Elasticsearch integrations, contributing notable work to the Jest project by implementing a native Elasticsearch client bridge that handles indexing, updating, deleting, and searching. His academic background combines computer engineering with a master's in logistics and supply chain management, giving him a systems-level view of operations and software. Known for shipping pragmatic, production-ready solutions, he pairs low-level API work with product-minded thinking. He often operates at the intersection of infrastructure, search, and startup product development.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Ege UniversityMaster's degree, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management, Master's degree, Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (18)
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
web-framework9
rest6
lucene6
docker6
aop6
dcos6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
searchbox-io/Jest
May 2012 - Jun 2021
Elasticsearch Java Rest Client.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:268 commits, 94 PRs, 108 pushes in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ferhat's commits primarily focused on implementing a native Elasticsearch client bridge within the Jest framework. This involved creating a new class, `JestElasticSearchHttpClient`, that acted as a client for Elasticsearch. The commits show the implementation of various Elasticsearch operations such as indexing, updating, deleting, and searching, indicating significant contributions to the core functionality of the client. Further commits demonstrate the incorporation of native API integrations by adapting code to support Elasticsearch request objects.
typesensefulltext-searchsynonymsrest-clientjava-rest
searchly/searchly-nodejs-sample
Oct 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 1 month
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