Gökhan Olgun
Principal Software Engineer at Nike
Houten, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGökhan Olgun is a Principal Software Engineer based in Houten, Netherlands, with over two decades of hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed systems and a 12-year track record in senior engineering and leadership roles. He currently leads platform and engineering efforts at Nike after progressing from Lead to Principal, and has a consistent history of building and mentoring high-performing squads across LINKIT, Lidyana, and other firms. Technically versatile, he spans backend Node.js/TypeScript and frontend React ecosystems while driving hiring, technical assessments, and architecture decisions. He has shipped large consumer-facing services (email, high-traffic portals and social games) and led migrations and performance work for millions of users. Known as a pragmatic mentor, he blends people leadership with deep technical ownership and routine involvement in hiring and team growth. An economist by formal education, he pairs business sensibility with engineering rigor to deliver measurable product impact.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Anadolu University
English, Turkish, Dutch
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Github Skills (12)
sublime-text9
ascii8
directions7
ascii-art7
php6
facebook6
package-control2
typescript1
ddd1
cqrs1
mongodb1
nodejs1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gkhn/ses-sns-dynamodb-example
Jul 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
gkhn/SectionComment
Sep 2013 - Jul 2019
ASCII Art Section Comment Plugin for SublimeText 2 and SublimeText 3
Contributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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