Summary
Ipek Turgul is a polyglot Lead Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of industry experience and over 6 years building production web applications across backend APIs, event-driven architectures, and modern front-ends. She has progressed from full-stack roles to staff and lead positions at companies like Immutable and Settify, driving migrations (Java to Kotlin), CQRS/ES Product APIs, and Node/React deployments to EKS. Ipek combines hands-on engineering with coaching—running study sessions, mentoring new developers, and founding tech initiatives to reduce debt and improve delivery. She balances pragmatic system design with a focus on observability and developer experience, having introduced linting, CI practices, and Datadog metrics in past teams. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable services while fostering inclusive engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate IV, Web-Based Technologies (Design and Development), Certificate IV, Web-Based Technologies (Design and Development) at TAFE NSW
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Global Business Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Business Administration, Global Business Management at Bilkent University
Turkish, English