Summary
Şafak Kaya is a backend-focused software developer with five years of hands-on experience building production Rails applications and a strong emphasis on simple, readable, and well-tested code. Based in Istanbul, he has shipped features across multiple startups and product teams, returning to Modaltrans most recently to continue refining backend systems. He actively deepens his understanding of backend fundamentals—particularly concurrency and performance—and is exploring Go to complement his Rails expertise. His background in electronic engineering and early R&D internship on voice-operated devices give him a practical systems perspective that informs how he designs resilient services. Comfortable in modern Rails stacks, Şafak balances pragmatic delivery with an engineer’s curiosity for low-level behavior and scalability trade-offs.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi, Elektronik Mühendisliği, Lisans Derecesi, Elektronik Mühendisliği at Gebze Technical University