Mert Kara
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMert 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
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Systems Security, Master's degree Information Systems Security at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering (Double Major), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering (Double Major) at Atılım Üniversitesi
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (49)
connectors8
autoconfiguration8
viewer8
couchbase7
htop7
console7
user-data7
console-application7
process-monitor7
aerospike6
mongodb6
django-views6
neo4j6
dynamodb6
spring-boot6
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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