Salih Cantekin
Lead Developer at Next
Greater Leicester Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSalih Cantekin is a pragmatic lead developer and Microsoft MVP based in the Greater Leicester area, blending over a decade of commercial software experience with nine years in senior roles building and migrating enterprise systems to cloud platforms. He currently leads backend development at Next, maintaining critical retail store systems and driving cloud adoption on Azure using .NET 6, SignalR, Functions, Service Bus and Azure Pipelines. His background spans architecting microservices and event-driven systems (Dapr, RabbitMQ, Redis) for fintech and travel domains, plus deep experience with legacy modernization from Delphi to .NET. Known for balancing operational reliability with pragmatic modernization, he has moved multiple monoliths into distributed architectures while preserving live business workflows. Outside work he combines a love of coding with cooking, space and sports, a personal blend that surfaces in methodical problem-solving and a team-first leadership style.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
365/4.0 Computer Programming, 365/4.0 Computer Programming at Karamanoglu Mehmetbey UniversityMaster's Degree Information Technologies, Master's Degree Information Technologies at Bahcesehir UniversityBachelor's Degree Business, Bachelor's Degree Business at Eskişehir Anadolu ÜniversitesiProficiency English, Proficiency English at Kaplan International Language School
İngilizce, Turkish
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Github Skills (10)
webapi10
dotnet8
csharp8
docker6
middleware6
mysql6
mapper4
poco3
dto3
object-mapper2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TechBuddyTR/TechBuddy.Extensions
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Provides extension libraries for AspNetCore Applications
Contributions:61 releases, 7 reviews, 138 commits in 1 month
dotnetazurefunctionswebapicsharpaspnetcore
salihcantekin/TechBuddySolution
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
This solution is created to contributed to open-source world. It contains useful Middlewares for now and will be containing more and more
Contributions:1 review, 31 commits, 7 PRs in 12 days
middlewaremiddlewares
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