Summary
İsmail Sırma is a Senior Software Engineer based in Istanbul with 10 years of experience building backend systems for finance, crypto, mobility and humanitarian applications. He specializes in designing resilient, event-driven microservices and high-throughput integrations using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js/TypeScript, Kafka/RabbitMQ and various persistence and caching layers (Postgres, MS-SQL, Redis, Hazelcast). His recent work at Softtech focuses on capital markets trading and order management, while prior roles include leading a team for Marti’s ride-hailing backend and architecting custody/KYC integrations for crypto neo-banks. He brings deep domain knowledge in capital markets and fintech—having implemented order routing, risk and compliance services—as well as practical experience automating multilingual, GDPR-aware workflows in humanitarian software. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, performance tuning and turning complex business rules into maintainable code and background job systems. Outside of projects, he pairs an electrical engineering background with hands-on cloud and distributed systems experience, enabling rapid iteration from design to production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Half Merit Scholarship, Bachelor of Science, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Half Merit Scholarship at Koç Üniversitesi
High level English trainee program, High level English trainee program at Anglo-Continental Language School, Wimborne Road, Bournemouth - UK
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronic Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Student, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electronic Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Student at University of Surrey
English, German, Turkish