Hakan Koklu
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHakan Koklu is a generalist software engineer and tech lead with 12 years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems and observability platforms from the ground up. Based in San Francisco, he has led alerting and backend language tooling efforts at Lyft, driven data pipeline and automation initiatives at Clover Health, and contributed to scalable analytics and monetization systems earlier in his career. Comfortable across Go and Python ecosystems, he designs and implements core scheduler/evaluator components, dependency and upgrade strategies, and cross-system integrations with metric engines and analytic databases. His background in optics and research (PhD-level work in electrical and computer engineering) informs a rigorous, measurement-first approach to engineering problems and tooling. Known for turning complex requirements into auditable, production-ready systems, he blends hands-on coding with architecture reviews and company-wide technical leadership.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ankara High School of ScienceBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Bilkent UniversityPhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University
Github Skills (27)
neo4j-database9
neo4j8
cartography8
go-client7
runner7
gdi7
linter7
golang7
gcp7
graph7
counter7
athena7
jquery7
infrastructure6
database6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yabanci/lebronstats
Apr 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
yabanci/50booksAyear
Jan 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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