Taylan Derinbay is an engineering leader with 10+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale testing, streaming, and user-domain systems at Trendyol and major Turkish e-commerce platforms. He blends deep expertise in test automation, performance engineering and DevOps-for-QA with full-stack development skills to design resilient CI/CD-driven tooling such as ARES (high-scale load tester) and in-house Kafka platform enhancements. Taylan has repeatedly scaled critical user services—authentication, subscriptions, loyalty and fraud prevention—serving millions while improving developer experience across 200+ teams. He mentors engineers and teaches software testing at university level, reflecting a commitment to knowledge transfer and sustainable engineering standards. Often thinking beyond typical QA boundaries, he treats automation as long-term architecture and integrates testing into platform roadmaps rather than single projects. Based in Istanbul, he pairs practical delivery experience with a systems-thinking approach to reliability and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Şehremini Anadolu Lisesi
Faculty of Engineering, Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Chemistry at İstanbul Üniversitesi
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Taylan Derinbay - Engineering Lead Member at Bahcesehir University