Samet Alemdar
Senior Software Engineer at Zalando
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolSamet Alemdar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and leading engineering teams. He currently architects and operates high-throughput event tracking pipelines at Zalando, using Apache Flink and AWS while applying SRE practices for observability, scalability and compliance. Previously he grew from working student to team lead at Adference, delivering microservices in Java/Kotlin, Angular front-ends, CI/CD and testing automation, and mentoring teams through technical and process decisions. He is an active open-source contributor who modernized a widely used Angular seed project—bringing in Cypress, RxJS pipeables and build improvements—which reflects his focus on pragmatic modernization and testability. Pragmatic about tools and rigorous about outcomes, he blends hands-on coding with architecture, incident response and continuous improvement across legacy and greenfield systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Informatics, Bachelor's degree Business Informatics at Leuphana University of LüneburgBachelor's degree Business Informatics, Bachelor's degree Business Informatics at Marmara University
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Github Skills (19)
typescript10
rxjs10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
angular10
javascript9
cypress9
cookie9
angularjs9
gulp8
testing7
nodejs7
build-automation7
html6
angular-ui-bootstrap6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mgechev/angular-seed
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
🌱 [Deprecated] Extensible, reliable, modular, PWA ready starter project for Angular (2 and beyond) with statically typed build and AoT compilation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 15 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Samet primarily worked on updating and refactoring the Angular seed project. Their contributions included dropping deprecated Angular HTTP dependencies, integrating Cypress for end-to-end testing, upgrading dependencies, and refactoring to use RxJS pipeables. Further changes involved removing direct dependencies to gulp-util and adjustments to build and configuration files. These changes indicate a focus on modernizing the project and improving testing and build processes.
compilationstatically-typedangular-clireliableaot-compilation
salemdar/ngx-cookie
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
Implementation of Angular 1.x $cookies service to Angular 2
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 150 commits in 5 years 4 months
angular-1cookieangularcookiestypescript
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