Koray Al
Principal Software Engineer at Soostone
Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolKoray Al is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and modernizing complex systems across industries, currently leading engineering efforts at Soostone from Ankara. He prefers functional languages like Haskell and Scala and has delivered robust, high-throughput projects such as lane control systems for tollways using Scala/Akka and Protocol Buffers. Comfortable in both remote and on-site international settings, he focuses on code quality, legacy modernization, and performance improvements while adopting cutting-edge tooling like Nix and a minimal Linux-based workflow. An active open-source contributor to the popular Spacemacs project, he brings practical editor and tooling enhancements that reflect his deep developer ergonomics sensibility. His background in electrical and electronics engineering and embedded systems work gives him a systems-level perspective that bridges hardware, low-level software, and scalable distributed services.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Antalya Anadolu LisesiBS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Erciyes Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (13)
vim10
configuration-management10
configurations10
emacs10
python10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
haskell9
git7
drupal6
php6
cck6
monads6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 61 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Koray primarily contributed to the Spacemacs Emacs distribution, focusing on enhancing features and fixing bugs across multiple areas. They updated Haskell-related configurations and added support for auto-loading virtual environments in Python projects via the `.venv` file. Additionally, the user addressed an issue within the `evil-mc` package by disabling paste transient state when multiple cursors are active, and resolved keybinding issues related to `notebook-multilang-mode`. Further, they addressed several issues and improvements related to mu4e email client integration.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
korayal/feedlyparser
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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