Onur Tirtir
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolOnur Tirtir is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building database and backend systems, currently developing the Citus engine for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL at Microsoft. His career path at Microsoft progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer, reflecting deep expertise in distributed databases and cloud-native data services. Earlier roles include engineering work in defense and research internships focused on computer vision and GAN-based image tasks, giving him a strong foundation in machine learning and applied research. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from Middle East Technical University and brings practical experience translating research ideas into production software. Colleagues know him for bridging low-level database internals with cloud platform requirements while retaining curiosity about ML-driven solutions. Based in Istanbul, he combines large-scale systems experience with a research-minded approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği, Bachelor's degree, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
İngilizce, İspanyolca
Github Skills (89)
postgresql10
sharding10
yahoo10
scale10
sql10
yahoo-finance-api10
database10
stock-data10
citus10
distributed-database10
docker10
financial-data10
docker-image10
yahoo-finance10
packaging10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
onurctirtir/superresolution-gan
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
onurctirtir/METU-CENG-Homeworks
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
computer-engineeringengineeringhomeworksmetu
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