Renan Cakirerk
Founder at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenan 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.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. Computer Engineering, BSc. Computer Engineering at Near East UniversityMSc. Software Engineering, MSc. Software Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (69)
electron10
typescript10
sliders10
editor9
ftp9
alfred-workflow9
http9
sftp9
microsoft9
visual-studio-code9
ide9
netflix9
dom9
preact9
bittorrent9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bit2pixel/netflix-god-mode-bookmarklet
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Get rid of the nasty sliders on Netflix
Contributions:17 commits, 20 pushes, 2 issues in 1 year 3 months
slidersnetflix
bit2pixel/watch-twitter-unfollowers
Jan 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 8 months
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