Summary
N Aydın is a Principal Software Engineer based in Berlin with nine years of senior engineering and leadership experience building large-scale, data-driven consumer systems across cloud platforms. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Python, Kotlin, microservices, data pipelines) with organisational engineering work—shaping reliability, observability, and bar-raising interview practices at Delivery Hero. Previously he led engineering and transformation efforts at Udemy, Invicti Security and multiple product companies, moving teams from monoliths to microservices and establishing leveling, compensation and agile practices. He excels at translating complex cross-cloud, low-latency and ML-validity challenges into pragmatic platform and process improvements while reducing technical debt. An atypical detail: alongside deep technical work he has run R&D incentives and academic collaboration programs, showing a knack for bridging product, people and funding ecosystems. He holds a Computer Engineering MS and BS from respected Turkish universities and is known for mentoring, architectural review, and driving engineering culture change.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Engineering, M.S., Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University
Master of Science - MS (Incomplete, Human/Medical Genetics, Master of Science - MS (Incomplete, Human/Medical Genetics at Yüksek İhtisas Üniversitesi
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Bilkent Üniversitesi
English, German, Turkish