Gürkan Kaymak
Senior Software Engineer at Talentful
Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolGürkan Kaymak is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, maintainable backend systems across fintech, healthcare, and identity protection domains. He has driven full lifecycle development at companies like Talentful and Linovi, delivering systems such as payment management, authentication/authorization servers, and identity protection platforms using Scala, Play Framework, AWS, and distributed tooling. Gürkan has contributed to the well-known Play Framework open-source project—improving URL query parameter handling and preserving binary compatibility by moving logic to Scala—demonstrating attention to robustness and interoperability. Comfortable mentoring teams and working in Agile environments, he pairs pragmatic engineering with strong testing and refactoring practices. Based in Türkiye, he combines enterprise experience with open-source sensibilities, favoring clean, reusable, and testable code.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Izmir Institute of TechnologyKarşıyaka Anadolu Lisesi
Github Skills (8)
javas10
web-framework10
url-encoding10
playframework10
java10
scala10
jtest9
junit9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
playframework/playframework
Jun 2019 - Dec 2019
The Community Maintained High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 44 commits, 16 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gürkan primarily focused on enhancing the Play Framework's query string parameter handling. They implemented URL encoding for query parameters, corrected existing tests and added new tests to validate the changes. They also refactored the existing logic for adding query parameters to a method and moved the implementation to Scala to resolve a binary compatibility issue. These changes improved the framework's ability to correctly handle and encode query parameters in URLs.
restfulplay-frameworkframeworkplayframeworkjvm
gurkankaymak/hocon
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
go implementation of lightbend's HOCON configuration library https://github.com/lightbend/config
Contributions:24 releases, 12 reviews, 69 commits in 2 years 10 months
golangenvironment-variablesconfigurationconfiguration-parserhocon-configuration
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