Tuna Vargi
Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTuna Vargi is a Director of Engineering in Berlin with 13 years of experience building and leading large-scale product and platform teams, currently co-leading a 70+ cross-functional tribe and directly managing 45 engineers at Delivery Hero. A hands-on Python and JavaScript developer, he is a core contributor to arguman.org and has practical open-source experience improving backend APIs such as the university-domains-list. His progression from senior engineer to director reflects deep operational ownership of reliability and user-facing services like Reviews, Image, and Authentication at scale. With a Master in Informatics and a background in physics engineering, he blends rigorous technical analysis with pragmatic leadership. Notably, he pairs production-grade backend expertise (Django, Flask, uWSGI) with a track record of improving search and reporting models that drive measurable UX and retention gains.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Physics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Physics Engineering at Hacettepe UniversityMaster Informatics, Master Informatics at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish, German
Github Skills (14)
api10
backend10
python10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
flask10
flask-ask10
django10
api-design9
restful-api9
sql9
rest-api9
api-rest9
json9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arguman/arguman.org
Oct 2014 - May 2016
Argument mapping and analysis platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits, 15 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tuna implemented a reporting model within the Django framework, adding functionalities such as report creation, premise, user, and contention associations. This involved modifications to the `premises/models.py`, `premises/views.py`, `premises/urls.py`, `premises/admin.py`, and `profiles/admin.py` files, demonstrating work on the backend logic and data model. The user also resolved conflicts and integrated migrations, contributing to the overall stability of the project.
argument-mappingpythondjangomappingcritical-thinking
Hipo/university-domains-list
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
University Domains and Names Data List & API
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Tuna primarily focused on developing the backend API for searching and retrieving university domain data. They implemented a search functionality based on country and name using Python and the Flask framework. The user added an index page and made updates to improve the application's data loading and search performance. Furthermore, the user implemented improvements for handling API requests within a uWSGI setup.
apitlddomains
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