Sinan Nalkaya
Senior Software Engineer at Fortanix
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSinan Nalkaya is a Senior Software Engineer based in Eindhoven with 17 years of experience building backend systems, microservices, and embedded software across startups and established companies. He has a strong track record designing domain models and production services—from touchscreen drivers and test automation at Cypress to web crawlers and scraping infrastructure at Scrapinghub. Sinan contributes to open source (notably enhancing the popular dateparser Python library with calendar and language-specific fixes) and pairs feature development with rigorous QA. Comfortable across system programming in C, Python backend work, and full-stack web apps, he excels at turning complex requirements into maintainable, testable services. Colleagues value his blend of low-level systems experience and pragmatic architecture for web and mobile platforms.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Izmir Atatürk LisesiBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Eastern Mediterranean University
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Github Skills (13)
date-parsing10
python10
test-automation10
testing10
arabic9
turkish9
fest8
git7
arm6
image-processing6
scrapy6
linux6
deferred6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
scrapinghub/dateparser
Nov 2015 - May 2016
python parser for human readable dates
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Sinan contributed to the development of dateparser's core functionality. Their work includes implementing a date separator finder, adding tests for new features, and integrating a Hijri calendar. They also added Turkish language-related test cases to the freshness date parser to ensure the reliability of the project. This demonstrates a focus on both feature development and quality assurance.
parserpython
returneksibir/yakala
Jul 2011 - Mar 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 2 years 8 months
web-crawlerspidercrawler-frameworkhumblecrawler
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