Kerem Celik
Staff Software Engineer at Twitter
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKerem Celik is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building scalable, cost-conscious backend systems for high-throughput products. He’s driven by collaboration with motivated teams and has led architecture and efficiency efforts at Twitter, New Relic (via the SignifAI acquisition), and consumer-scale services at Tango Me. His expertise spans distributed query and storage engines, intelligent backend selection, large-scale event processing, and relationship-detection systems optimized to run on limited hardware. Kerem combines hands-on implementation with system-level design—shipping services that reduce noise, consolidate billions of events, and act as intelligent caches and analytics relays. A former game-services cofounder, he brings an operator’s mindset and a track record of solving hard reliability and cost-efficiency problems in production.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeBS/MS, BS/MS at UC Santa BarbaraSaratoga High School
English, Turkish
Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
keremnc/KitPVP
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:71 commits in 1 month
keremnc/mountpoint-s3
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 month
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