Summary
Taner Tombas is a Staff Software Engineer based in Istanbul with nine years of experience building and scaling back-end systems across startups and high-growth apps. He is fluent in Node.js, Python, Laravel and AWS, and has repeatedly delivered measurable reliability gains—most notably cutting daily error reports for a major app from 20,000 to ~2,000 while scaling throughput from 350k to 750k interactions. Taner blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, having led back-end teams that built AI-powered products (real-time trainer feedback, taste-based recommendation engines) and implemented robust CI/CD, monitoring and error-handling frameworks. He excels at system design and performance optimization, turning exploratory prototypes into production-grade, scalable services. Comfortable liaising with AI specialists, product and DevOps teams, he focuses on pragmatic solutions that balance innovation with operational stability. Outside core stack choices he brings a talent for spotting structural bottlenecks and redesigning systems to support rapid user growth.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bilgisayar Yazılımı Mühendisliği, Bilgisayar Yazılımı Mühendisliği at Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi