Mehmet Deveci
Principal Software Engineer at Splunk
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Deveci is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native backend systems and developer tooling, now based in Vancouver and currently leading engineering at Splunk. He spent five years at AWS contributing to core Serverless tooling—fixing bugs, adding features like Amazon MQ event support, and modernizing runtime and build pipelines for the AWS SAM and Lambda builders projects. Mehmet blends backend development with DevOps and test automation, driving dependency and CI/CD improvements, ARM64 support, and platform compatibility across Windows and modern Node/Python runtimes. His career spans fintech and enterprise systems at companies like Adyen and TOFAS, demonstrating an ability to deliver reliable production systems in regulated environments. He holds a Computer Engineering degree and an MBA, a combination that informs pragmatic technical decisions with business context. Less obvious: he repeatedly focuses on build/tooling stability and cross-platform quirks, a niche that prevents outages and accelerates developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Master of Business Administration, Master Master of Business Administration at Istanbul University
Github Skills (26)
dependency-management10
docker10
python10
testing10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
dockers10
cicd10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
build-automation10
serverless10
error-handling10
nodejs10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sam-cli-app-templates
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:179 reviews, 12 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mehmet focused on improving the testing and build processes for the AWS SAM CLI app templates. They modified test configurations, removed support for older language templates (Ruby, Python 2.7, Node.js 10), and added support for newer Node.js versions (16 and 18). Their contributions included the implementation of unit tests and adjustments to the build and deployment pipelines to ensure compatibility and reliability.
aws/aws-lambda-builders
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Python library to compile, build & package AWS Lambda functions for several runtimes & framework
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 216 reviews, 38 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mehmet's contributions primarily involve improving the build and deployment process of AWS Lambda functions. They focused on dependency management, including upgrading versions, fixing encoding issues, and enabling ARM64 support. The user also implemented code improvements, such as using symlinks and creating a lock block to optimize the process. They also added tests and contributed to code formatting and refactoring.
aws-lambdalambdapythonruntimes
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