Nilay Karaoglu
Senior Java Game Developer at Mojang Studios
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolNilay Karaoglu is a Senior Java Game Developer based in Stockholm with nine years of hands-on experience building game systems and automation tools. After progressing through QA engineering and automation roles at Nasdaq, he joined Mojang Studios where he advanced from Java Game Developer to Senior Java Game Developer, applying strong Java, tooling and systems-thinking to live game development. His background spans full-stack web and e-commerce projects, SharePoint integrations, and performance-minded front-end work, giving him a rare combination of game-focused engineering and production test/CI expertise. Nilay pairs an MS in Interactive Media Technology from KTH with practical experience optimizing build verification and developer tooling to keep large codebases stable. A gamer and Tolkien fan who relocated to Stockholm to pursue game development, he brings both product empathy and a developer-first approach to shipping features and maintaining platform reliability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates QA discipline into scalable game engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Gediz UniversityMaster of Science (MS) Interactive Media Technology, Master of Science (MS) Interactive Media Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Turkish, English
Github Skills (4)
optimization5
semantic3
datatables2
selector2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eowyn36/eowyn36.github.io
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:8 PRs, 72 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
Umb-vr-ela/project2
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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