Summary
İlkay Orhanlar is a Software Development Manager with 11 years of experience leading backend and infrastructure engineering for high-availability, real-time communication and VoIP platforms. He combines hands-on system design and production coding—primarily in Ruby on Rails and Go—with architectural ownership of distributed, event-driven systems that prioritize scalability, observability, and operational simplicity. At Verimor he integrated FreeSWITCH for SIP workflows, authored low-latency Lua extensions, and drove improvements in fault tolerance and service reliability across cloud and containerized environments. Previously he built large-scale transaction systems for travel tech at HotelRunner and gained full-stack web experience earlier in his career using PHP, JavaScript, PostgreSQL and Redis. Based in Istanbul, he pairs a business administration background with technical depth, making him effective at aligning engineering choices to product and operational goals. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, incident leadership, and pragmatic architecture that keeps real-time systems running smoothly.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Anadolu University
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at İstanbul Aydin University
Bahçelievler Anadolu Lisesi
İngilizce, Turkish