Kayra Alat
Marketplace Engineering Lead at Tigin
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKayra Alat is a marketplace engineering leader and founder with 11 years of experience designing and shipping full-stack systems across Python, TypeScript, Kafka, and AWS. Currently leading Marketplace Engineering at Mercari in Tokyo and bootstrapping a SaaS (Savorit.ai), Kayra blends hands-on system design with people leadership, having built and scaled engineering teams in startups and enterprise settings. Past roles include architecting winning proofs-of-concept that secured major contracts at Tractable and creating an internal Python web framework that accelerated product development at Whitespace. Comfortable switching between delivery, stakeholder management, and low-level engineering, Kayra repeatedly turns scarce resources into production-ready solutions. An Oxford Executive Leadership alumnus, they pair technical depth with a founder’s pragmatism and a penchant for juggling "probably too many things."
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Leadership Programme, Executive Leadership Programme at University of OxfordBachelor of Science (BSc), Computing, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computing at Bournemouth University
turkish (conversational), japanese (beginner)
Stackoverflow
166reputation
29kreached
1answer
15questions
Github Skills (41)
psql8
virtualenvwrapper8
timer8
fitness7
jekyll7
scraper7
loopback7
api7
flask7
python7
version-control7
html6
dependency-injection6
react6
nodejs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Kayra/thunder
Aug 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:248 commits, 2 PRs, 215 pushes in 1 year 11 months
routinefitnesstimer
Kayra/metuo
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
Photography portfolio web app (Flask, Python, React, JS, PSQL, Docker)
Contributions:7 reviews, 442 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years 6 months
reactpythonflask-appflaskpsql
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