Mehmet Köse is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and shipping backend systems and identity services for large enterprises. He currently leads system design and scalable API development at Elsevier, having previously driven backend architecture and a global status portal and cloud-first Data Loss Prevention platform at Cisco. His career shows repeated transitions from monoliths to microservices and hands-on decisions across technology stack, database design, and API contracts, always with a focus on security and reliability. Comfortable in Java-centric stacks and cloud environments, he has delivered integrations spanning networking, monitoring, payments and enterprise systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still codes—bridging high-level design with day-to-day implementation—and who brings an unusually broad cross-domain perspective from media, finance, and security projects.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Degree Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Degree Computer Science at Bilkent University
Master of Science Degree Software Engineering, Master of Science Degree Software Engineering at Boğaziçi University
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Mehmet Köse - Principal Software Engineer at Elsevier