M Karataş
Founding Software Engineer at Letter AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolM Karataş is a founding software engineer and seasoned full-stack developer with 15+ years of experience building startups, products and cloud-native systems from Istanbul to San Francisco. He blends deep backend and architecture experience—spanning Python, JVM, databases and systems—with a JavaScript-first focus since 2015, having shipped production React/TypeScript UIs and developer-facing tooling. He has led small-to-mid engineering teams and prefers individual contributor roles to stay hands-on, but is comfortable taking on management when projects require it. Notable work includes optimizing a specialized time-series store at Hazelcast, migrating complex data platforms (Postgres → Cassandra → Scylla), and building a Kubernetes-based cluster simulator to demonstrate enterprise failure/recovery scenarios. His background includes desktop C++/Delphi roots and a history of translating legacy stacks into modern, lower-LOC cross-platform solutions. Based in San Francisco, he combines product-minded engineering with pragmatic architectural choices that prioritize observability, accessibility and reduced operational complexity.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Kadikoy Anadolu LisesiPhysics, Physics at Sakarya Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (150)
distributed-computing10
operating-system10
computation10
vue-devtools10
browser10
in-memory10
hazelcast10
java10
electron-builder10
packager10
unit-testing10
electron-packager10
caching10
low-latency10
boilerplate10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/codemirror-lang-hzsql
Apr 2022 - Jul 2023
HzSQL support CodeMirror6
Contributions:1 review, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
utkukaratas/utkukaratas.github.io
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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