Naisila Puka
Software Engineer II at Snowflake
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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Top SchoolNaisila Puka is a software engineer with eight years of experience building distributed database systems and Postgres-related tooling, currently contributing to Snowflake's Postgres team. Previously at Microsoft she worked on the Citus Engine and other database projects, bringing deep practical experience in scalable OLTP and distributed query execution. Her background includes research internships at EPFL and Bilkent, where she benchmarked structural-variation genomics tools and prototyped scaled-out OLTP over Ethernet—work that informs her performance-first engineering approach. She started in engineering with Citus Data, building performance dashboards that reflect a strong interest in observability and performance metrics. Based in Ankara, she blends research-minded rigor with production engineering at large cloud vendors, and often signals engagement with social causes in public-facing profiles.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Bilkent University"HRP" College
Arabic, Latin, Italian, German, Spanish, Albanian, Turkish, English
Github Skills (26)
postgresql10
sharding10
graphdb10
citus10
scale10
sql10
database-cluster10
distributed-database10
multi-tenant10
documentation10
database10
testing9
libra8
postgresql-extension8
matching7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
naisila/HashCode2019
Mar 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 8 months
naisila/libhash
Apr 2019 - Nov 2020
Project 2
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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