Umit Kavala
Software Engineering Manager at Eneco
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolUmit Kavala is a seasoned software engineering manager and founder with nine years of formal experience and a two-decade technical background building scalable cloud-native systems and teams across Europe. He has led large migrations and reliability efforts—driving a 300% scalability improvement at Elsevier and 99.9%+ uptime and faster deployments at Booking.com—while mentoring engineering organizations and establishing career frameworks. As founder of ZereData he applies practical machine learning to generate synthetic training data for robotic bin picking, blending product-led engineering with hands-on R&D. An active back-end contributor to protoactor-go examples, he helps keep distributed actor patterns and cluster examples aligned with evolving APIs. Based in the Randstad, he combines operator-level delivery experience with startup curiosity and a track record of reducing technical debt and operational risk.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
İşletme ve Yönetim, Genel, İşletme ve Yönetim, Genel at Anadolu UniversityYüksekokul mezunu, Bilgisayar Programcılığı, Yüksekokul mezunu, Bilgisayar Programcılığı at Dokuz Eylul UniversityMS, Bilişim Sistemleri, MS, Bilişim Sistemleri at Gazi University
Turkish, İngilizce
Github Skills (9)
actor10
distributed-systems10
go10
clustering10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
actor-model10
distributed-computing10
grpc9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asynkron/protoactor-go
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Umit primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the example code within the `protoactor-go` repository. They refactored example code to work with the ActorSystem API and merged changes from the `dev` branch. These modifications included updates to the Protobuf definitions, grain interfaces, and cluster configurations for distributed actor systems. The changes highlight a focus on enhancing the examples to align with the latest API.
protobufgrpcultraactor-modelproto
umitkavala/efcore
Nov 2020 - May 2021
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
Contributions:56 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
c-sharpschema-migrationslinqormobject-database
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