Ozan Tezcan
Senior Software Engineer at Redis
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolOzan Tezcan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Istanbul with 8 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems and contributing to high-profile open-source projects. He has focused on low-level systems and performance-sensitive code, demonstrated by bug fixes and sanitizer work in Redis and protocol/compatibility fixes in Hazelcast. At Redis since 2021 he blends backend engineering with DevOps-minded improvements to builds and tests, while earlier roles included system-level C libraries and networking code. Comfortable across JVM and C ecosystems, he has a practical knack for compatibility, build hygiene, and subtle runtime fixes that keep distributed systems robust.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kocaeli Körfez Fen lisesiBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Istanbul Technical University
Github Skills (40)
caching10
debug10
buffer10
buffering10
back-end-development10
redis10
testing10
memory-management10
databases10
hazelcast10
build-system10
c1110
url-parsing10
data-structure10
java10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tezc/sc
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Common libraries and data structures for C.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 18 reviews, 94 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ozan's primary contributions focused on implementing and improving common libraries and data structures written in C. They added functionality to parse and create URLs, added buffer management, and improved socket related code. The user's work also encompassed system level elements involving thread, and signal handling.
binary-search-treequeuesthreadhash-functionsmmap
hazelcast/hazelcast
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 40 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ozan primarily contributed to the Hazelcast project by addressing bugs and making minor improvements to existing code. Their commits involve fixing typos, swallowing exceptions related to MemcachedClient shutdown, and resolving java6 compatibility issues. Furthermore, they updated copyright notices to reflect the current year and made a code change related to thread dump functionality.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
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