Rifat Ekin
Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolRifat Ekin is an engineering leader and co-founder with 11+ years building and scaling payment-focused, cloud-native platforms across startups and high-traffic commerce environments. He has led large organizations—owning platform, data, core, backoffice and payments teams—driving architecture, cost-savings (including AWS EDP negotiations), and hiring programs that grow engineering capability. Hands-on from system admin to cloud architect, he blends deep DevOps and AWS expertise with pragmatic system design and multi-language development. Notably, he transformed IoT and payment infrastructures through PaaS-to-AWS migrations and resilient payment stacks for international operations. Based in Haarlem, he pairs strategic planning and budget stewardship with a founder’s appetite for product-driven technical reinvention.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Dokuz Eylul UniversityBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Ege University
English
Github Skills (25)
line-api10
seed9
api-client9
pipeline9
tdd9
rest9
tester9
api-testing9
load-testing9
rest-api8
api8
aws8
fake-data-generator8
random-generation8
api-rest8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
restbeast/restbeast
Apr 2020 - Nov 2022
Command line API client, an API testing tool and an easy load testing tool
Contributions:27 releases, 10 reviews, 114 commits in 2 years 7 months
api-clientgolangapipipelineload-testing
restbeast/homebrew-brew
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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