Tolga Akin
Engineering Director at Zip Co
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTolga Akin is an experienced engineering leader with over 15 years designing and delivering software across media, advertising, public services and proptech, currently directing engineering at Zip Co after shaping Domain’s Trade team for real estate agents. He blends strong engineering fundamentals (SOLID, CI/CD) with hands-on fluency in React, NodeJS, Python, C#, MongoDB and Elasticsearch to drive quality and faster time-to-market. Known for mentoring teams and liaising closely with product stakeholders, Tolga translates complex domain needs into pragmatic, production-ready systems. His background spans global projects—from audience targeting platforms at Publicis to e-government research at TUBITAK—giving him a rare mix of technical depth and policy-aware systems thinking. Colleagues describe him as someone who continually invests in learning evolving tools and makes decisions with both users and engineers in mind.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBSc Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BSc Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Github Skills (23)
celery10
eve10
eve-online10
esi10
superdesk10
journalism10
elasticsearch10
mongodb10
flask10
python9
typescript9
react9
planning9
redux8
api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akintolga/newsroom
Aug 2017 - Jun 2020
Superdesk Newsroom
Contributions:1 PR, 353 pushes, 506 branches in 2 years 10 months
newsroomdocker
akintolga/superdesk-client-core
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
Common client modules for superdesk apps.
Contributions:248 pushes, 214 branches in 3 years 10 months
reacttypescript
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