Sait Nisanci
Angel Investor at Self-employed
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSait Nisanci is an experienced software engineer and angel investor based in the UK with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, distributed systems at companies including Microsoft and Google. He has deep backend expertise—contributing to the well-known Hazelcast real-time data platform by refactoring core Java code, adding features like getPositiveMillisOrDefault, and enabling non-Java client credentials—and has worked on Postgres horizontal scalability at Microsoft (Citus extension). Comfortable across the full SDLC, Sait has also authored a Hazelcast Go client and emphasizes coding standards, CI, and robust testing. Now investing and advising startups, he blends production-grade engineering judgment with a practitioner’s view of product-market fit. An alumnus of Bogazici and the University of Washington, he pairs rigorous CS foundations with practical distributed systems experience.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Boğaziçi University
Github Skills (8)
hazelcast10
javas10
caching10
distributed-systems10
back-end-development10
java10
distributed-computing9
stream-processing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hazelcast/hazelcast
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 27 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Sait primarily contributed to the backend of the Hazelcast project. Their work involved refactoring code for improved readability, removing redundant code, and fixing typos. They also added new functionality, specifically, the `getPositiveMillisOrDefault` method, and implemented custom credentials for non-Java clients, modifying several core Java classes. These contributions indicate a focus on improving code quality, adding features, and expanding the system's capabilities.
computationstream-processingbigtablereal-timestreaming-data
yjhjstz/citus-age
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Distributed PostgreSQL as an extension
Contributions:122 commits in 11 months
distributeddatabasepostgrespostgresqlplpgsql
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