Kerem Sevencan
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKerem Sevencan is a Senior Software Engineer and tech lead based in Berlin with 12+ years building scalable front-end and full-stack systems, currently contributing to Zalando. He combines a design background with deep TypeScript and cloud experience—leading migrations from ECS to EKS, implementing CI/CD for monoliths, and shipping microfrontends and design-token driven workflows. Kerem is passionate about quality engineering: he introduced testing cultures, contract testing, and e2e infrastructures across multiple teams to raise reliability and speed. He’s an active open-source maintainer (sketch-iconfont, ~2k stars) and speaks and writes about frontend practices, bringing community-driven polish to product work. Known for high emotional intelligence, he mentors engineers, runs cross-team integrations, and pairs product thinking with hands-on execution. Beyond engineering, he explores business ideas and prototype validation to uncover new revenue opportunities.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Visual Communication Design, Bachelor's Degree Visual Communication Design at Maltepe UniversityBachelor's Degree Graphic Communication, Bachelor's Degree Graphic Communication at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
sketch-plugin10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
apim7
api7
scriptingbridge6
gulp6
sketch-app6
npm6
icon-fonts6
cocoascript6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
keremciu/sketch-iconfont
Sep 2015 - Feb 2021
This plugin helps you easily insert and manage icons from icon fonts.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 releases, 180 commits, 21 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kerem primarily contributed to the development of a Sketch plugin for managing and inserting icons from icon fonts. Their work involved fixing link issues, updating text, and resolving various problems in the user interface. They added new functionalities, such as inserting icons to the selected artboard and also fixed the issues with non text layer selections. The user's contributions spanned across multiple aspects of the plugin, including the user interface and core functionality.
faviconicon-fontsfontfontsicon
hypeserver/ne-kadar-verdin
Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
Web application to calculate taxes you have given to Turkish state between 2009-2019.
Contributions:61 commits, 5 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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