Onur Baskirt
Software Engineering Lead at Emirates
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolOnur Baskirt is a software engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building and transforming engineering and QA organizations across aviation, e-commerce, telecom and retail sectors. Currently leading Emirates' microservices testing and transformation, he combines hands-on framework development (polyglot stacks across Java, Scala, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin/Typescript) with strategic DevOps and CI/CD adoption to accelerate time-to-market and quality. He has a strong track record of scaling teams and processes—having managed 30+ people at Kariyer.net, cut CI times dramatically, and improved test maturity and performance through automation. An advocate of agile and SAFe, he bridges business and engineering to deliver measurable DORA-style delivery improvements while fostering self-organizing teams. Outside of corporate roles he runs the award-winning software blog SwTestAcademy, serves on international testing juries and conference committees, and speaks regularly on test automation and microservices practices. His academic pedigree (top-ranked BSc and MSc, and research at UC Santa Cruz) underpins a pragmatic engineering mindset that spans chip-level verification to distributed cloud systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzMaster’s Degree, MSc, Digital Microelectronics, 4.00 - Summa Cum Laude, Master’s Degree, MSc, Digital Microelectronics, 4.00 - Summa Cum Laude at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (16)
windows6
internet-explorer6
imagemagick6
im4java6
checkpoint6
ssl6
selenium6
image-comparison6
java6
test-automation1
ashot1
selenium-webdriver1
automation1
selenium-java1
webdriver1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
swtestacademy/JSWaiter
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
swtestacademy/TestNGParallel
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
TestNG Parallel Test Execution
Contributions:27 commits in 3 months
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