Summary
Şafak أكبر is a founder and senior Go backend engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, high-performance systems and cross-platform desktop applications. He has led architecture and migrations from PHP/Python to Go, designed hundreds of microservices and resilient infra on AWS/GCP, and shipped production-ready solutions for gaming, e-commerce, and SaaS. Comfortable across the stack, he blends pragmatic engineering (SOLID/DRY/Clean Architecture) with operational rigor—APM, SonarQube, CI/CD and Datadog—to keep systems observable and reliable during high-traffic events. He also brings product and growth sensibilities from running a bootstrapped dating app end-to-end, improving conversion funnels through A/B testing and analytics. Based in Tbilisi, he pairs consultancy agility with founder-level ownership at Twilight (ABACUS) while continuing deep technical delivery at Digipal. Known for breaking big problems into small jobs, he focuses on solving concrete business problems with clean, scalable code.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
3.47 / 4.00, Computer Science, 3.47 / 4.00, Computer Science at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
3.54, Computer Science, 3.54, Computer Science at Marmara University
Turkish, İngilizce, German, Russian