Omer Palaz
Software Engineer at Nextdoor
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOmer Palaz is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in building scalable, low-latency distributed systems for video and real-time applications. Currently at Nextdoor, he architected a parallel video processing pipeline and designed a local news ingestion platform integrating feeds from major outlets. Previously he scaled backend systems for a social video startup to millions of users, implemented distributed search and SEO microservices, and designed robust real-time messaging protocols. His background includes network-scale data collection and topology analysis at Cisco and automation that sped deployments and updates in earlier roles. A Bilkent Computer Science graduate on full scholarship, he blends systems-level performance tuning with product-focused engineering to deliver high-throughput, production-ready services.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Full Scholarship, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Full Scholarship at Bilkent University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (11)
bmp8
parsing5
python4
kafka3
collector2
rest2
receiver2
postgresql1
sql1
mysql1
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
SNAS/openbmp-mrt2bmp
Oct 2016 - May 2017
Read MRT files and send natively in BMP format
Contributions:64 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
bmpmrt
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