Sarp Centel
Software Engineer at CodeCrafters.io (YC S22)
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolSarp Centel is a seasoned software engineer with nearly two decades of experience, specializing in Android product development and engineering leadership across startups and major platforms. He has driven engagement and performance improvements at Instagram, Meta, and Snap—shipping messaging, video, and poll features while leading cross-team efforts and teams of up to ten engineers. Known for hands-on optimizations (including a 4x faster video rendering pipeline and network prefetching improvements) he also won internal recognition and a Hackweek prize for a playback debugging tool. More recently he created multi-language courseware and starter code for a "Build your own BitTorrent" course, showing a knack for teaching complex systems and tooling. Based in Los Angeles, he blends deep mobile systems expertise with product-focused execution and an appetite for developer education.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at Sabanci UniversityM.S. Computer Science, M.S. Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
matching9
npmjs8
whatsapp6
android-emulator6
android6
http6
gps6
acceptance-testing6
java6
algorithm6
unit-testing6
testing6
chat5
messaging5
redis4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
codecrafters-io/bittorrent-tester
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Tester for the "Build your own BitTorrent" challenge
Contributions:10 reviews, 43 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year 3 months
lightbox/lightbox-buttons
May 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 1 day
rounded-cornersgradientsstrokesandroid-libraryandroid
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