Taylan Isikdemir
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylan Isikdemir is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across startups and hyperscalers, currently focused on Agent Infrastructure at OpenAI. He has driven backend and platform work at Uber (contributing to the open-source Cadence orchestration project), Google, and Microsoft, and helped design a cost-efficient, edge-aware observability platform at early-stage Edge Delta. Taylan blends deep systems and distributed-systems expertise with practical infrastructure maintenance—his Cadence contributions include refining matching logic and reducing noisy logs in favor of metrics. Comfortable across C++, Go, and cloud platforms, he has a track record of shipping production-critical APIs and control planes for SaaS and telemetry systems. Based in Seattle, he pairs rigorous academic foundations from METU and Boğaziçi with a pragmatic focus on operational resilience and measurable observability improvements.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bs, Computer Engineering, Bs, Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityMSc, Computer Engineering, MSc, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Github Skills (7)
go10
back-end-development10
logging9
distributed-systems9
cassandra8
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cadence-workflow/cadence
Sep 2023 - Apr 2025
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1165 reviews, 276 PRs, 123 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Taylan primarily focused on improving the Cadence matching service, specifically addressing logging failures related to remote sync match scenarios. They removed a noisy log line, opting for a metric, and also made minor updates to error handling within the matching context. Additionally, the user updated the Cassandra image version in the docker compose files, contributing to infrastructure improvements. These changes demonstrate a focus on code optimization and infrastructure maintenance.
cadenceresilientorchestration-engineservice-buslogic
taylanisikdemir/cadence
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:498 pushes, 227 branches in 1 year 5 months
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