Mert Barutcuoglu is a software engineer with 9 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems and backend services across startups and large cloud platforms. He has shipped production-grade scheduling and ingestion systems at AWS and Splunk that orchestrate hundreds of thousands of jobs and handle terabytes of data daily, emphasizing availability and accuracy. Comfortable across Java, Go, Kubernetes, and serverless AWS stacks, he’s delivered features spanning infrastructure-as-code, dynamic secret schemas, and end-to-end testing frameworks. A UBC computer science graduate and former teaching assistant, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and a pragmatic focus on observability and reliability. Currently at a hyper-growth AI startup, he’s also exploring LLMs through personal projects, blending cloud-scale systems experience with applied AI curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Launch X Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Launch X Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme(IBDP), International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme(IBDP) at SEV American College - Özel SEV Lisesi
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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