Serkan Holat
Owner at forCrowd
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSerkan Holat is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts from startup portals to enterprise systems, currently running his own company forCrowd in the Netherlands. He blends hands-on backend development—demonstrated by contributions to the OSSF criticality_score project improving logging, auth, validation and maintainability—with advisory and research roles that inform open source funding and sustainability. His background spans roles as Lead Software Developer at AkzoNobel and Expert IT Engineering at Van Lanschot Kempen, giving him proven experience delivering robust, production-grade systems across industries. Organizer work with SustainOSS and short-term advisory positions reflect a strong interest in open source health and ecosystem resilience beyond coding. With formal studies in Business Administration, he combines technical depth with commercial and organizational insight to translate complex requirements into practical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
4. year, Business Administration, 4. year, Business Administration at Anadolu University
English, Turkish, Dutch
Stackoverflow
2,575reputation
315kreached
26answers
5questions
entity-framework
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Github Skills (16)
logging10
python10
api-design9
entity-framework9
error-handling9
refactoring8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
t46
typescript6
javascript6
excel6
ef-code-first6
reactive-programming6
angular6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ossf/criticality_score
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Gives criticality score for an open source project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 28 commits, 20 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Serkan primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the project, focusing on the `generate.py` file. Their work involved refactoring code, such as renaming files and updating default values. They also made significant changes to the codebase by introducing logging, refactoring the authorization token process, and modifying the output format to enhance the maintainability of the project. Furthermore, they addressed error handling and added validation to ensure the robustness of the application.
open-source-projectcriticality
forCrowd/forCrowd.Website
Jun 2015 - Mar 2021
forCrowd Foundation Website
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 years 10 months
foundation
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