Summary
Serkan Gunes is a Senior Systems Architect with over 13 years of hands-on experience and more than 20 years in the software industry, combining deep backend, cloud and frontend expertise. He designs and ships production-grade cloud systems with an "infrastructure as code" mindset, regularly leveraging AWS serverless and container services as well as Kubernetes, CockroachDB and Pub/Sub patterns. At CMC Markets he led transformational projects from a trading module built with micro-frontends to a client-facing investment platform powered by TypeScript Lambdas. As co-founder and CTO of a card-processing startup he architected and built a full microservices-based payments stack single-handedly, proving his ability to take products from zero to live customers. Known for blending pragmatic system design with strong OOP and functional programming skills, he thrives in fast-paced environments and adapts rapidly to new technologies. Based in Milton Keynes, he pairs enterprise-grade delivery with startup grit and end-to-end ownership.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
GCSE, GCSE at Denizli Anadolu Lisesi
Bachelor of Computer Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Computer Engineering Computer Engineering at Ege University
English, Turkish, Spanish