Furkan Ayhan
Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFurkan Ayhan is a Staff Backend Engineer based in Amsterdam with 13 years of experience building scalable SaaS platforms and backend systems. He progressed through hands-on roles at startups in Turkey before joining GitLab in 2019, where he advanced from Senior to Staff Backend Engineer and focuses on reliability and large-scale backend architecture. With a Computer Engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University, he brings deep practical experience in payment/invoicing and marketplace domains as well as modern CI/CD and developer tooling practices. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous product needs into robust, maintainable services and for mentoring peers across distributed teams. Although not a prolific public GitHub contributor, his long tenure at GitLab signals significant involvement in internal tools and operational engineering that keep developer workflows productive.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (83)
swagger10
oas10
rest-api10
openapi10
javascript10
swagger-ui10
api10
rest10
rails-api10
redoc10
activemodel10
css10
open-source10
solidity9
postgresql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
furkanayhan/furkanayhan.github.io
Aug 2015 - Nov 2020
Furkan Ayhan - Personal Website
Contributions:31 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 5 years 4 months
reactnextjstailwindcss
furkanayhan/sublime-text-configs
Sep 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
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