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)
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hex10
unix10
browser10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ssg/ssgmatrix
Apr 2010 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 12 years 1 month
ssg/TurkishId
Nov 2014 - Nov 2022
Validator/generator for Turkish Republic Citizen ID numbers (TC Kimlik No)
Contributions:6 releases, 129 commits, 3 PRs in 8 years 1 month
validationtc-kimliktc-kimlik-novalidatorkimlik
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