Görkem Ercan
CTO And Founding Distinguished Engineer at Eclipse Foundation
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolGörkem Ercan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 13+ years of experience building developer tooling, mobile platforms, and CI/CD systems, now leading engineering at Jozu. A long‑time Eclipse Foundation stalwart and former Red Hat Distinguished Engineer, he created the widely used Eclipse JDT language server and vscode-java extension and is a committer on projects such as Eclipse Theia and Apache Cordova. He combines deep backend and tooling expertise—evidenced by contributions to Cordova CLI/plugin management and YAML/JSON language servers—with product leadership across startups and large organizations. Based in Toronto, he is an active open-source evangelist and one of the longest-serving Eclipse committers, bringing rare institutional knowledge of IDE ecosystems to strategic engineering decisions.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bornova Anadolu LisesiBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Marmara University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (39)
javascript10
cordova10
testing10
plugin-development10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
language-server-protocol10
vscode-extension10
java10
javas10
language-server10
typescript-types10
yaml10
nodejs10
eclipse10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-developer/yaml-language-server
Sep 2017 - Dec 2022
Language Server for YAML Files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:166 reviews, 47 commits, 83 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Görkem primarily contributed to enhancing the YAML language server by refactoring code, adding type information, and implementing new features. They moved JSON language service functionalities to the YAML service, exposing public APIs for easier consumption, and added code actions for common tasks. They also focused on improving schema validation, including adding tests for duplicate properties and URI references.
yaml-fileslanguage-serverlanguage-server-protocolyaml-supportyaml
eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Java language server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 113 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Görkem primarily contributed to the Java Language Server, focusing on implementing and refining code actions and features. They implemented code actions such as "insert quotes" and "remove import" and developed tests to ensure the correct functionality. They also improved the code, introducing workspace/applyEdit, and added the functionality for return type quickfixes. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the completion functionality, incorporating client capabilities.
language-javalsplanguage-servereclipselanguage-server-protocol
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