Summary
Murat Özkan is a Staff Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems. He has progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Miro and TOPdesk, bringing deep hands-on expertise in cloud-ready Java and microservice architectures, performance testing, and resilient systems design. Murat's background includes building middleware and platform components on Cloud Foundry/IBM BlueMix, contributing reusable libraries, and improving engineering processes like code review across organizations. A lifelong learner and sci‑fi enthusiast, he pairs practical production experience with a curiosity for reactive architectures and system-level reliability. Outside work he enjoys engineering challenges in Kerbal Space Program, reflecting an interest in complex, simulation-driven problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology
İzmir Anadolu Lisesi
Turkish, English