Mert Karakas
Software Engineer II - Data Security & Investigations
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMert Karakas is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with 11 years of experience building scalable web services and APIs for eDiscovery, data security, and compliance. He designs resilient infrastructure—job queueing, data purging, monitoring—and has integrated LLMs and Security Co-Pilot to tag large-scale documents for security investigations. Comfortable across .NET, cloud services, machine learning and embedded systems, he blends production-grade backend work with a lifelong hardware and robotics habit that informs pragmatic system design. He’s operated on-call for high-stakes customers including Fortune 500 and government tenants, optimizing search/export performance and incident response. An enthusiastic educator and community builder, he has taught programming to youth, led a cultural student organization, and enjoys collaborating on robotics, ML, and educational projects. He’s also exploring web design and animation as an artistic outlet, bringing a maker’s curiosity to both code and creative interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science Concentration, High School, Science Concentration at Hisar SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
178reputation
32kreached
12answers
17questions
Github Skills (48)
algorithm10
python10
java10
data-structures10
creative-commons10
cpp10
recipe9
cocktail9
javascript9
podcast9
sorting-algorithms9
questions-and-answers8
vue8
css8
tree7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Memocana/AP-feed
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 47 pushes in 1 month
kmert10/kmert10.github.io
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
Repo for my portfolio
Contributions:7 PRs, 27 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 3 months
react
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