Serdar Yildirim
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSerdar Yildirim is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building payment systems and globally used financial transaction APIs. He blends deep backend expertise—especially in PostgreSQL, Redis, Ruby on Rails, Elixir and AWS—with full‑stack roots from earlier JavaScript and frontend work, and a track record leading teams at Juvo and Airbnb. Focused on scalable, robust architecture, he has driven integrations across diverse payment infrastructures and operationalized systems used at scale. His background as a founder and formal training in computer science and project management give him a pragmatic, product-aware approach to engineering tradeoffs. Based in Miami, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-level delivery experience to complex financial systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Dokuz Eylul UniversityMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Ege UniversityHigh School, High School at Izmir Ataturk Lisesi
Github Skills (14)
sdk9
stacktrace9
iban8
error-handler8
payment7
adyen7
payment-gateway7
libphonenumber6
api6
vesta6
ruby6
gateway5
crash-reports5
sentry5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
serdary/qamini
Mar 2011 - Aug 2012
Contributions:39 commits in 1 year 5 months
serdary/backbone-facebook-newsfeed
Dec 2011 - Mar 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 3 months
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