Gural Vural
Engineering Manager at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGural Vural is an engineering manager at Booking.com with two decades of hands-on experience spanning software development, data engineering, and technical leadership across search, web, and distributed systems. He combines deep Java expertise and a PhD-level research background with practical experience building large-scale, production-grade systems and leading teams through complex engineering challenges. His career includes leadership and senior engineering roles at NTENT and MilSOFT, where he focused on information retrieval, machine learning pipelines, and full-stack web systems. Known for enjoying hands-on coding and continuous learning, he bridges research rigor and product-focused delivery. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a track record of turning challenging, large-scale problems into reliable, maintainable solutions while mentoring engineers to grow into technical leaders. An often-overlooked strength is his long tenure across both defense and commercial sectors, giving him uncommon perspective on robust, mission-critical software development.
8 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at The University of ManchesterHigh School, High School at Ankara Atatürk Anadolu LisesiBachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Middle East Technical University
Github Skills (19)
monitoring9
graphite9
graphite-carbon9
high-performance8
go8
router8
whisper8
golang8
devops7
architecture7
frontend7
agent6
terraform6
terraform-provider5
plugin5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nvbn/carbonapi
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
High performance Graphite frontend in go
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
golanggoperformancefrontendgraphite
faceair/carbonapi-1
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
High performance Graphite frontend in go
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
golangperformancefrontendgraphitehigh-performance
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