Ikbal Kaya
Software Engineer at Cisco ThousandEyes
Lewes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIkbal Kaya is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years' experience building mobile and real-time systems across startups and scale-ups in the UK. He has led mobile teams and shipped native Android features like payments and Android Auto at Zapmap, developed mobile SDKs and a Kafka sink connector at Ably, and now contributes to observability at Cisco ThousandEyes. Comfortable across front-end mobile, backend services, and SDKs, he blends product-focused feature delivery with low-level integration and tooling experience (Fastlane, Retrofit, Gradle). Known for turning ambiguous requirements into reliable releases, he also bridges customer support and engineering to close the loop on production issues. Based in Lewes, he combines pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for connecting disparate systems into cohesive solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi 
English, Kurdish, Turkish
Github Skills (71)
realtime10
messaging10
sink10
chat10
streaming10
android-client10
client-library10
clojure10
sdk10
rest10
swift10
kafka-connect10
java10
scala10
tvos10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ably/kafka-connect-ably
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Kafka Connector for publishing data from Kafka to Ably
Contributions:6 releases, 122 reviews, 379 commits in 10 months
sinkpublishingkafka-connectorconnectorably
ably-labs/GameRoomSDK
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
A multiplayer game room SDK using Ably as communication platform
Contributions:1 review, 119 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
game-roommultiplayer-gamecommunicationsdkroom
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