Sümer Cip is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience focused on observability, performance and distributed systems, currently building large-scale profiling and OpenTelemetry pipelines at Platform.sh. He has deep systems and low-level expertise from roles at Blackfire.io and Sony, including developing a C extension memory profiler for Python and leading distributed scanning tooling. An active open-source contributor, Sümer created and maintains yappi, a multithreading- and asyncio-aware Python profiler that informed his commercial work. Comfortable across Go, Python, C/C++ and ClickHouse, he combines hands-on coding with system design to turn observability into production-ready insights. Based in Istanbul, he also brings startup founder experience and a knack for squeezing performance from complex, heterogeneous environments.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kadikoy Anadolu Lisesi
Bachelor's degree, Computer science, Bachelor's degree, Computer science at Sakarya Üniversitesi
Yet Another Python Profiler, but this time multithreading, asyncio and gevent aware.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 releases, 5 reviews, 454 commits in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sümer primarily contributed to the development of the Yappi (Yet Another Python Profiler) project, focusing on improving and maintaining its performance and functionality. Their commits addressed core issues within the profiler, including fixing potential memory leaks, correcting incorrect time calculations in recursive function calls, and resolving build errors and warnings related to cross-platform compatibility and code style. The user also enhanced code by refactoring and updating existing functions to use new Python features to improve efficiency.
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Sümer Cip - Senior Software Engineer at Platform.sh