Gürkan İndibay
Pendik, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolGürkan İndibay is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with over 20 years of hands-on experience and a decade of focused work in cloud, distributed systems, and web development. He combines PMP-backed program management with deep full-stack fluency across Angular, Rust, Java, C#, C, and C++, moving products from concept to production and leading multidisciplinary teams. Gürkan has built mission-critical banking and manufacturing systems, led migrations from desktop to cloud, and established CI/CD and DevOps practices that cut release friction and improved reliability. At Microsoft he contributed to Citus—an influential distributed PostgreSQL extension—improving build and packaging pipelines and developing PostgreSQL extensions in C and Rust. Known for pragmatic architecture and crisis-driven service restorations, he also pairs agile leadership with formal process improvements such as BDD and CMMI adoption. Based in Istanbul, he blends hands-on development with product ownership and a track record of scaling teams and systems under high operational pressure.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gebze Technical UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English
Stackoverflow
91reputation
744reached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
packaging10
distributed-database10
devops10
cicd9
bash9
docker8
python8
c178
dockers8
c118
sql7
azure-pipelines6
azure6
django-orm6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
citusdata/citus
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 releases, 320 reviews, 32 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Gürkan primarily contributed to improving the build and packaging processes of the Citus extension. Their work included adding jobs to test builds across different distros to detect compilation errors early. They also addressed packaging pipeline issues, such as activating pyenv within container images and correcting error suppression in the pipelines. Furthermore, they resolved errors related to code formatting and function declarations.
distributedrelational-databasesqlcitusscale
citusdata/docker
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
:ship: Docker images and configuration for Citus
Contributions:1 release, 122 reviews, 274 commits in 1 year 11 months
docker-imageshipcitusdockerpostgres
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