Gökmen Görgen is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building web platforms, backend services, and infrastructure across startups and regulated markets. He began in Linux and open-source (Pardus) and has deep Python/Django roots, later expanding into Go, Lua and data engineering for AI-driven products. Gökmen has led engineering teams and served as CTO while remaining hands-on—designing microservices, CI/CD, AWS infrastructure, and private package registries to scale production systems. He contributes to scientific open-source tooling (notably backend work on the anvi’o omics platform) and blends product-minded engineering with operational ownership. Based in Berlin, he pairs a management master’s perspective with a long history of shipping pragmatic, regulation-conscious solutions for B2B and consumer audio experiences.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Management and Organization, Master's degree Management and Organization at Istanbul Arel University
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Tekirdağ Anatolian High School
Diploma Economic and Administrative Sciences, Diploma Economic and Administrative Sciences at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
An analysis and visualization platform for 'omics data
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gökmen primarily contributed to the backend infrastructure of the `anvio` project. Their work included adding features to download project files and modify database interactions. They also updated dependencies and fixed bugs related to Django integration, file handling, and the GFF3 output format. The user also made changes to the user management and botleroutes modules.
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 4 years 7 months
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Gökmen Görgen - Senior Software Engineer at ai-coustics