Sedat Kapanoğlu
Co-Founder at Eksi Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarSedat Kapanoğlu is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 16 years of experience who co-founded and modernized Ekşi Sözlük into one of Turkey’s top social platforms and currently leads Eksi Inc. in San Francisco. He combines deep systems and product expertise—from Windows core storage and test engineering at Microsoft to early real-time, networking and smart-client projects—with a knack for scaling small teams to deliver highly available user-facing services. Author of Manning’s Street Coder and an active demoscener, he blends practical engineering craft with a strong appreciation for performance, UX and community-driven platforms. Notable for driving moderation and anti-censorship initiatives at scale, he also created alternative revenue streams and multimedia features while keeping lean development practices.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
linq10
visual-studio10
encoding10
cpp10
operating-system10
unix10
browser10
ftps10
minification10
environment-variables10
base4510
stylecop10
ips10
uwp10
command-line10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ssg/path
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Command-line tool to manage PATH environment variable
Contributions:3 releases, 55 commits, 40 pushes in 1 month
command-line-tool
ssg/xdream
Feb 2012 - Sep 2014
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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