Ozan Kurt
CTO & Co-Founder at Gelecegin Yildizlari - Future Stars Inc.
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolOzan Kurt is a CTO and serial co-founder with 11 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently leading Epic Algorithms while co-founding Wellow.io and contributing as a senior developer at hrConnectum and 4global. He blends full‑stack expertise—SQL, PHP, jQuery and database-driven systems—with product leadership, shipping maintainable back-end solutions and mentoring teams. His open-source work includes meaningful fixes and test-suite improvements to the popular yajra/laravel-datatables library, addressing tricky SQL aliasing and PHP 8.1 compatibility issues. A former education coach, he pairs technical depth with an ability to teach and drive community-focused initiatives, grounded in a Computer Science background from KIT and years based in Karlsruhe.
11 years of coding experience
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Deutsche Schule Istanbul
Turkish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
datatables10
php10
datatable10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
refactor9
phpunit9
refactoring9
http6
html6
css6
laravel-blade6
javascript6
tailwindcss6
mysql6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
yajra/laravel-datatables
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
jQuery DataTables API for Laravel
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 11 PRs, 50 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ozan primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Laravel-based data tables library. They addressed issues related to incorrect SQL query generation, specifically handling table aliases during column searches. The user also fixed PHP 8.1 deprecation warnings, improved exception handling, and refactored code to ensure compatibility and maintainability. Additionally, they updated and expanded the test suite for the project.
jquery-datatableslaravelphpdatatableslaravel-datatables
OzanKurt/KurtModules-Library
Jun 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 10 years 2 months
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