Summary
Olcay Karaduman is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building data-intensive, production-grade systems across startups and large enterprises. Currently at bol.com, he brings deep backend and infrastructure expertise in Java, Kotlin, Scala, JavaScript and cloud-native tooling, having implemented Kafka Streams, Cassandra, Redis, Kubernetes and Terraform in previous roles. He has a strong track record delivering payment, security and real-time tracking features for high-traffic e-commerce platforms and helped migrate complex legacy systems to Spring Boot and AWS. Comfortable across the full stack, he has also contributed to React/React Native frontends and built NodeJS analytics services from scratch. A self-taught developer with a formal degree from Bilkent University, Olcay stands out for repeatedly taking early-employee roles to design architectures and CI/CD pipelines that scale. Based in the Randstad, he combines pragmatic engineering with a hunger for learning and tackling hard distributed systems problems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Technology & Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Technology & Information Systems at Bilkent Üniversitesi
Turkish, English