Summary
Mehdi Saffar is a seasoned Software Development Engineer with 10 years of full-stack experience across startups and product teams, currently at AWS. He specializes in pragmatic engineering: shipping GPT-4 chatbots that cut support workload by 40%, optimizing CI and ETL pipelines, and hardening routing and geospatial systems for bike-friendly navigation. Comfortable across JS, Python, C++, Postgres/PostGIS and cloud tooling, he excels at squeezing performance from legacy code and simplifying infrastructure with Terraform and automated CI. A Boğaziçi University graduate and former competitive programming student, he pairs deep technical rigor with a knack for mentoring and rapid incident resolution. Notably, he has a track record of accelerating test suites 4–22x and consolidating multi-database systems without downtime, showing a bias for measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Marcus Whitman High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, 3.5, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, 3.5 at Boğaziçi University
Mathematics, Mathematics at Pioneer High School of Sousse
Senior year, Senior year at Seaman High School
Turkish Language and Literature, C1, Turkish Language and Literature, C1 at Istanbul University
Arabic, French, English, German, Turkish