Summary
Renan Cakirerk is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years building high-impact, scalable systems across startups and hyperscale companies. He has shipped consumer-viral products (Netflix God Mode), led revenue-generating enterprise apps (Service Connect for The Home Depot, $150M+ incremental revenue), and architected core Order and User Platform services at Uber, driving major latency, cost, and reliability improvements. Comfortable across hardware, full-stack web, and distributed backend systems, he has shipped RESTful APIs and apps used by millions and prototyped smart home hardware integrated with mobile. A hands-on mentor and prolific documenter, he wrote company-wide guides and tooling at Uber and has deep experience in Go, Python, microservices, and globally replicated databases. His open-source roots (Pardus/Linux contributions, Google Summer of Code mentor) and international living experience give him a pragmatic, multi-perspective approach to solving complex technical and product problems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Engineering, BSc. Computer Engineering at Near East University
MSc. Software Engineering, MSc. Software Engineering at Boğaziçi University