Kaan Uzdoğan
Software Developer & Collective Member at Argot Collective
Berlin, Turkey
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Top SchoolKaan Uzdoğan is a software developer with a decade of experience building and maintaining blockchain tooling and developer infrastructure, currently maintaining sourcify.dev as a collective member in Berlin. He has deep hands-on expertise in Ethereum ecosystem projects—contributing to Sourcify as a DevOps/backend engineer, improving IPFS reliability, multi-testnet support and security, and enhancing the Remix IDE and Solidity documentation. His background spans full-stack work, validator node operations, and decentralized research platforms built with React, Node, Solidity and MongoDB from roles at the Ethereum Foundation and Max Planck Digital Library. Kaan pairs rigorous academic training from Technical University of Munich and Boğaziçi University with practical, production-focused engineering. Notably, he moves fluidly between developer UX (searchable IDE components, constructor handling) and low-level infra fixes (compiler output selection, Docker/IPFS networking), a blend that helps bridge user-facing tooling and resilient backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of OuluMaster of Science - MSc. Informatik, Master of Science - MSc. Informatik at Technical University of MunichBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi UniversityIstanbul Erkek LisesiDistant Study Economics, Distant Study Economics at Istanbul University
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (33)
docker10
solidity10
scripting10
typescript10
ipfs10
metadata10
dockers10
script10
remix-ide10
ethereum10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
sh10
typescripts10
shell10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ethereum/sourcify
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Source code verification service for Ethereum smart contracts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:117 releases, 389 reviews, 617 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kaan focused on improving the infrastructure and resolving bugs related to the project's reliance on IPFS. They fixed issues that caused dockerized IPFS nodes to be unreachable and announced public IP addresses, making the instance accessible over the Docker network. They also added support for various testnets and addressed compiler buffer overflow issues by changing the compiler output selection. Furthermore, this user implemented security updates by merging a dependency security branch and made performance improvements to the IPFS setup.
ethereumcontractblockchaindecentralizedsolidity
ethereum/remix-project
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Remix is a browser-based compiler and IDE that enables users to build Ethereum contracts with Solidity language and to debug transactions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kaan's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Remix IDE, a browser-based Solidity compiler and IDE. They implemented a searchable dropdown component for chain selection, integrated Fuse.js for improved search capabilities, and modified the display of contract names. Additionally, the user worked on improving the contract verification process by integrating the Sourcify verifier, adding constructor argument handling, and updating the UI to reflect these changes.
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