Gökhan Aksakalli
Engineering Manager at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGökhan Aksakalli is an Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 11 years of software engineering experience, currently leading teams at Zalando after progressing through roles from Junior Engineer to Lead. He favors readable, maintainable solutions and has a track record of translating that preference into production systems and team practices across multiple long-term Zalando engagements. With a Master’s in Software Systems Engineering from RWTH Aachen and a background in academic research, he blends rigorous engineering principles with practical delivery. Colleagues likely know him as a steady technical coach who scales both code quality and team capability rather than chasing fad technologies. Though not visibly prolific on GitHub, his decade-plus tenure at a major European e-commerce platform signals deep domain experience in large-scale, customer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Enginnering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Enginnering at İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji EnstitüsüMaster, Software Systems Engineering, Master, Software Systems Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (15)
spring-oauth26
spring-boot5
publisher5
react4
java4
spring-boot-starter4
spring4
spring-security3
producer3
bus3
monitoring2
java-client1
http1
opentracing1
dropdown1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
goekhanak/zalmemo
Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:76 commits, 23 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year
hackweekmemoryreactgame
zalando-incubator/tarbela
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
publisherreliable
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