Ibrahim Halatci
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolIbrahim Halatci is a principal software engineering leader based in Istanbul with a decade-plus career bridging embedded systems, simulation, and cloud-native software. He has led engineering organizations at Eatron and now drives Azure product group efforts at Microsoft, combining deep hands-on experience from The MathWorks and SAP with strategic cloud and automotive software initiatives. His background spans mechatronics and an MS from MIT, giving him a systems-thinking approach that connects hardware-aware development (EV navigation, HIL, MATLAB/C++) to scalable cloud engineering. Known for taking large, legacy codebases through architectural modernization, he excels at translating research-grade algorithms into production-grade services. He brings a rare mix of product-facing leadership and low-level technical fluency, useful for teams shipping complex, safety-relevant systems. Fluent in cross-disciplinary collaboration, he often operates at the intersection of controls, data, and cloud infrastructure.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Mechanical Engineering, M.S, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, Math and Sience, High School, Math and Sience at Ankara Ataturk Anadolu LisesiB.S, Mechatronics Engineering, B.S, Mechatronics Engineering at Sabanci Üniversitesi
Github Skills (13)
citus10
scale10
postgresql10
sql10
sharding10
multi-tenant10
database10
distributed-database9
database-cluster9
graphdb9
docker-image8
docker6
packaging5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ihalatci/system-design-primer
May 2022 - May 2022
Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
anki-flashcardsscalelarge-scalesystem-design-interviewdesign
citusdata/packaging
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Packaging scripts for Citus
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 month
packagingcitus
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