M Altinkaya
Founder at Lodging Base
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolM Altinkaya is a founder and seasoned technology leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance backend systems for travel, car rental, and telecom businesses. He has repeatedly designed and scaled mission-critical platforms—most notably a Go/Bigtable search engine serving 300k responses per minute and a microservices transformation that boosted throughput 20x—while cutting infrastructure costs through efficient architecture. Proficient in Go, Python, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch and modern observability stacks, he pairs deep systems engineering with product-focused delivery and API/SDK automation. Recently he embedded AI into production services, shipping a GPT-4 powered chatbot with streaming LLM chains capable of invoking APIs and interactive UI elements. Based in Istanbul, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering, often tackling tight latency and integration challenges that others avoid. As a founder and former CTO, he continues to drive technical strategy, rapid provider integrations, and data-driven operational improvements.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Science and Mathematics, High School Diploma Science and Mathematics at Mersin Fen LisesiBurdur Anadolu Lisesi
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (64)
game-engine10
user-interface10
cross-platform10
imgui10
graphical-user-interface10
api10
cpp10
game-development10
debugging9
python9
browser9
static-site9
pelican9
django8
flask8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mua/mua.github.io
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 5 months
yolcu360/apm-agent-python
Mar 2021 - Apr 2022
Official Python agent for the Elastic APM
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
pythonagentapmelasticelastic-apm
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