Mert Kara
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Canada, Turkey
Summary
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SeniorMert Kara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with over a decade of experience building high-throughput back-end systems for billing, payments, gaming, e-commerce, and telecom. He has a strong track record migrating monoliths to microservices and designing event-driven architectures that process millions of API and webhook requests daily. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and former engineering manager, he combines hands-on coding (Python, Java, Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform) with operational ownership of CI/CD and observability stacks. His recent roles centered on platform reliability and webhook/payment pipelines, while earlier work includes telecom-grade data ingestion and large-scale game monetization services. He holds a master’s in Information Systems Security and brings a security-minded approach to scalable system design. Notably, Mert repeatedly steps between strategy and implementation—preferring to stay close to the code even when leading teams.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (48)
connectors9
process-monitor8
console-application8
user-data8
htop8
tui7
freebsd7
openbsd7
macos6
aerospike6
autoconfiguration6
django-views6
css6
linux6
django6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
amertkara/user-data-manager
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
A sample microservice for user data management
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
data-managementsample-microservicemicroservicesuser-datajava
amertkara/simple-minesweeper-impl
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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