Orçun Çolak
Lead Software Engineer at Aselsan
Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolOrçun Çolak is a seasoned software engineering leader with about 8 years counted in recent senior roles and over two decades of industry experience, currently leading engineering at Aselsan from Ankara. He has driven backend and distributed systems work across telecom and defense sectors, with senior roles at Hazelcast, Optiva, and long tenure building Java backend platforms at MilSOFT. Orçun blends hands-on architecture and coding with team leadership, having held principal and architect positions that bridged product requirements and scalable implementations. His background combines a Computer Engineering degree from ODTÜ with an MBA, signaling both technical depth and business-minded decision making. Quiet but steady, he brings institutional knowledge of mission-critical systems and a pattern-oriented approach to designing resilient services.
8 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at ODTUMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Mount Saint Mary's College
English
Stackoverflow
452reputation
21kreached
41answers
2questions
Github Skills (41)
caching10
in-memory9
low-latency9
computation9
java9
distributed-computing9
hazelcast9
stream-processing8
scalability8
distributed-systems8
storage8
streaming-data8
big-data7
clustering7
boost-asio6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OrcunColak/javatutorial
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:221 pushes in 1 year 2 months
OrcunColak/hzjetclient
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:93 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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