Serhat Bolsu
Principal Software Engineer at Emirates
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolSerhat Bolsu is a Principal Software Engineer based in Dubai with 11 years of hands-on experience building web and mobile platforms, e‑commerce systems, and test automation at scale. He combines technical depth—founding Qualify Labs to deliver a real-device mobile test automation platform and contributing to the Robot Framework AppiumLibrary—with senior delivery leadership of 30+ engineer teams at Emirates and major retailers. Comfortable both coding and coaching, he has a track record of reshaping orgs into cross-functional, autonomous teams and aligning engineering output tightly with business needs. His background spans cloud-native architectures (AWS, Docker), CI/CD, and diverse stacks from Python and Node to Ruby and mobile automation tooling. As an entrepreneur who grew a successful startup and a servant leader in enterprise IT, he blends product-minded execution with a persistent drive to teach and inspire colleagues. A non-obvious strength: he still prefers to dive into code and tooling improvements personally, even while leading large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Microelectronic & Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Microelectronic & Electronic Engineering at Sabanci University
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Github Skills (14)
test-automation10
appium10
robotframework10
python10
mobile-app-testing10
testing10
standard-library9
c-library9
common-library9
multiprocessing6
peewee6
automated-tests6
selenium-webdriver6
postgresql6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
serhatbolsu/robotframework-appiumlibrary
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
AppiumLibrary is an appium testing library for RobotFramework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 15 reviews, 143 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Serhat primarily contributed to the functionality and maintenance of the Robot Framework AppiumLibrary, a test automation library. Their commits include adding and modifying Appium desired capabilities, specifically for features like `newCommandTimeout`. They also updated the library to be compatible with Robot Framework 2.9 and included features for managing applications on mobile devices. Furthermore, the user enhanced the library documentation by including examples and version updates.
pythontest-automationappiummobile-testingtesting
serhatbolsu/api-test-javascript-jest-boilerplate
May 2020 - May 2021
Restful API Test Automation Sample - Boilerplate - ATDD - Resource Objects - Jest - Superagent - Express - Allure
Contributions:26 commits, 14 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
jestexpressallureapi-testingtesting-tools
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