Ilker Celikyilmaz
Senior Technical Lead at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolIlker Celikyilmaz is a senior technical lead with over 25 years of hands-on experience designing and delivering large-scale, production-critical systems across cloud, fintech, and enterprise software. Currently leading Vertex AI Search initiatives at Google, he combines deep architectural judgment with practical execution, shepherding cross-functional teams to ship intelligent data products on schedule and budget. His past roles include driving game developer cloud simplification at Google, architecting SharePoint Online’s flighting and certification systems at Microsoft, and defining the Visa Offers Platform as Chief System Architect—work that produced multiple patents and measurable cost savings. Ilker is fluent in a wide range of modern technologies and integration patterns, and has a track record of introducing novel frameworks (OSGi/Camel, async remote processing) to improve agility and reliability. He mentors engineers and shapes product roadmaps while preferring pragmatic, measurable improvements over theoretical designs. Based in Greater Seattle, he brings both startup-era coding discipline and enterprise-scale governance to complex engineering challenges.
7 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (11)
agones10
golang10
kubernetes10
dedicated10
go10
game-development10
multiplayer10
hosting10
scaling10
gcp2
google-cloud2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
ilkercelikyilmaz/agones
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Contributions:70 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 8 months
hostinggamesdedicatedgame-servergame-server-hosting
googleforgames/agones
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Contributions:52 reviews, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 8 months
golanghostingagonesdedicated-game-serversgames
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