Turgay Yilmaz
Engineering Manager at Booking.com
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTurgay Yilmaz is an engineering manager at Booking.com with a PhD in Computer Engineering and over 15 years of hands-on experience across backend, desktop and web systems. He combines deep technical roots—as a former software architect and developer—with more than a decade leading agile teams at organizations including Elsevier, HAVELSAN and Turksat. Skilled in modern web and mobile stacks (TypeScript, Node.js, React/React Native, GraphQL), he pairs pragmatic architecture decisions with continuous delivery and XP practices. His career uniquely blends academic research (visiting research associate at the University of Tokyo) with commercial product delivery, driving complex systems such as command-and-control and e‑government platforms. Known for mentoring engineers and owning end-to-end lifecycle from requirements to deployment, he brings both process discipline and a developer’s instinct for simplification. Based in Amsterdam, he thrives at the intersection of research-informed architecture and high-velocity product teams.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Computer Engineering, M.Sc., Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical UniversityB.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Bilkent University
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Github Skills (103)
authentication10
lambda-functions10
react-native-web10
knowledge-graph10
cytoscapejs10
webpack-plugin10
tailwind10
react10
amplify9
joomla-component9
aws-amplify9
vdm9
api9
notification9
cli9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MaastrichtU-IDS/perfect-graph
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Create perfect graph visualisations easily
Contributions:590 commits, 185 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
cytoscapejsknowledge-graphpixijsreactreact-native-web
sabaturgay/personalSite
May 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:42 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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