Mesut Özen
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMesut Özen is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of professional experience and a strong track record of delivering scalable back-end and web systems using Java and Scala. He has driven migrations from monoliths to microservices and built search, recommendation and data pipelines at scale for major e-commerce and classifieds platforms like Zalando, Trendyol, Hürriyet Emlak and xenn.io. Comfortable across cloud-native stacks (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS), streaming and data technologies (Kafka, Flink, Nifi) and search/databases (Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Couchbase), he combines pragmatic architecture choices with hands-on implementation. Known for a get-it-done mindset, Mesut emphasizes performance, maintainability and test-driven delivery while mentoring teams and shaping technical standards. An engineer who moves fluidly between design, ops and product needs, he often takes end-to-end ownership—from requirement shaping to production operations.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Istanbul University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (107)
oop10
guice9
java9
bus9
twitter8
matcher8
maven8
slf4j8
procedures8
undertow8
testing8
messenger8
messaging8
docker8
checkstyle-plugin8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mesut/BookApp
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
mesut/algorithms
Jul 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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