Mehmet Bahadır
Software Engineer at Mollie
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Bahadır is a seasoned Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems across fintech and HR tech companies, currently contributing at Mollie in Amsterdam. He combines a strong engineering foundation from Istanbul Technical University with a pragmatic emphasis on agility, testability, measurability and scalability, and has led senior-level projects that improved team delivery and stakeholder satisfaction. Backend development is his core strength, while pragmatic frontend and DevOps skills let him own end-to-end delivery when needed. An avid tinkerer, he maintains numerous over-engineered side projects and has contributed meaningful improvements to the popular Faker library by adding realistic, range-constrained geolocation data generation. Comfortable in multicultural teams, he works fluently in Turkish and English and even navigates Dutch life well enough to order food.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Karadeniz Technical UniversityMaster's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Istanbul Technical University
English, Turkish, Dutch
Github Skills (4)
data-generation10
php10
phpunit10
lib10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fzaninotto/Faker
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mehmet primarily focused on enhancing the `faker` library's address provider. They implemented the ability to generate latitude and longitude values within specified ranges, making it easier to generate fake data for specific geographic areas. Key contributions included modifying existing functions to accept min/max values, refactoring to use a `randomFloat` function, and adding a `localCoordinates()` function. These changes aimed to improve the library's flexibility and realism in data generation.
factorytestingphpdummy-datafaker
ShortlyMAB/laravel-comment
Jun 2016 - Sep 2020
Just another comment system for your awesome Laravel project.
Contributions:13 releases, 58 commits, 38 PRs in 4 years 4 months
laravelphpcomment-systemlaravel-project
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