Levent Özen
Software Engineer at Trendyol Group
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolLevent Özen is a versatile software engineer with 10+ years building scalable web applications and design systems, currently shaping front-end architecture and WebAssembly experiments at Trendyol. He spans full-stack work in TypeScript, Go and Python, has led small teams, onboarded and mentored engineers, and helped maintain a design system used company-wide (contributions visible in Trendyol’s baklava repo). His background includes embedded/compatibility work in C on Solaris, commercial full-stack projects, and teaching Python, reflecting both low-level problem solving and developer-facing craftsmanship. Based in Istanbul, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a curiosity for performance and accessibility, and outside work enjoys chess analysis, music and organizing internal tech meetups.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
ui-components10
typescript10
web-components10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
lit10
system10
component-kit10
sys10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
frontend10
storybook9
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Trendyol/baklava
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Baklava is a design system provided by Trendyol to create a consistent UI/UX for app users.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 39 commits, 88 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Levent primarily contributed to the `baklava` design system by implementing and refining UI components, specifically a button component. Their work included refactoring and linting the code, adding testing configurations, and integrating with Storybook for documentation and visualization. They also updated the default theme, integrated a new merge, and simplified the linting process.
reactlitweb-componentsjavascriptvue
leventozen/case
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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