Mehmet Polat
Backend Lead at COFE App
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Polat is a Backend Lead with 11 years of hands‑on experience building scalable, cloud-native systems from monoliths to microservices and serverless architectures. Based in Ankara, he leads COFE App’s backend using JavaScript/TypeScript, Java (Spring Boot), PostgreSQL/PostGIS, DynamoDB and AWS services (ECS, Lambda, Kinesis, S3, SES) while driving observability through ELK and centralized logging. He has engineered payment and notification systems, implemented Kafka for interservice messaging, and optimized performance with ElastiCache and Locust load tests. His background spans .NET, Python and deep‑learning experiments (cosine similarity for semantic search), reflecting a pragmatic full‑stack mindset and comfort with both data and infrastructure. Known for moving projects from prototype to production—often containerized with Docker/Kubernetes and deployed via CI/CD pipelines—he pairs team leadership with continual hands‑on delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Kocaeli UniversitySelcuk Anatolian High School
English
Github Skills (61)
architecture10
open-source10
self-hosting10
saas10
privacy10
csharp10
hosting10
retrieval9
web-application9
entity-framework-core9
dotnet-core9
spider9
domain-driven-design9
angular9
blazor9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mypolat/Svelte-with-Net-Core-Api-Example
May 2020 - Jun 2021
.Net Core Web Api and Svelte usage example
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
apisvelteweb-api-corenet-coreweb-api
mypolat/Playground
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
I'm trying some things in this playground :zap:
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
crosswordphoneticsrocketdmzap
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