Oğuz Albayrak
Software Engineer at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOğuz Albayrak is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building search, data and machine learning platforms across major tech companies in Europe, currently contributing to Booking.com's Data & ML Platform in Amsterdam. He has deep backend expertise in Scala, Python and C/C++, with a strong track record implementing search systems (Lucene/Elasticsearch), recommendation engines and production-grade microservices and DevOps pipelines. His open-source and hobby projects reveal a systems-first mindset—writing a Python AST interpreter in C, a custom compiler and VM, and a simple shell—demonstrating low-level curiosity beyond typical application work. He’s shipped features at scale at companies like Workday, Delivery Hero and Demonware, and has experience owning on-call and CI migrations for real-time gaming services. As a PyCon Turkey organizer and active GitHub contributor to projects like the Go microservice framework "kite," he blends community engagement with hands-on engineering.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Samsun Fen LisesiBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiBusiness Analytics, Business Analytics at Ecole internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l'InformationSamsun Anadolu LisesiMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, not finished, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, not finished at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
English, French, German, Turkish, Latin, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
command-line-interface10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
cli10
command-line10
web-framework9
devops9
json8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
koding/kite
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
Micro-service framework in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Oğuz primarily contributed to the development of a micro-service framework in Go, as evidenced by the examples and core functionality changes. They implemented command-line interface (CLI) features and refactored package structures to enhance the framework's usability and maintainability. Furthermore, the user was involved in setting up the registration and kite creation processes, which indicates involvement in the DevOps aspects of the project. This includes defining the overall structure and deployment of kites.
gomicroservicesweb-frameworkdiscovery-serviceauthentication-backend
oguzalb/panpazilla
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:18 commits in 11 months
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