Ümit Ünal
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Trendyol Group
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolÜmit Ünal is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14+ years building scalable distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, currently driving platform work at Trendyol Group. He has led backend architecture and observability initiatives at fast-moving startups and mid-size companies (including Tyk, Hazelcast, iyzico and eBay), focusing on simplicity, performance and reliability across multi-cloud environments. Comfortable from design to deployment, he applies infrastructure-as-code and developer tooling to raise engineering velocity and ownership. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex requirements into secure, maintainable systems while keeping operational concerns front and center. Based in Istanbul, he combines deep hands-on systems experience with a knack for pragmatic architecture and continuous improvement. His public portfolio and long-term GitHub presence reflect a sustained commitment to sharing tools and learnings with the engineering community.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Anadolu University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (93)
distributed-computing10
fault-tolerance10
stream-processing10
client-library10
computation10
api10
scalability10
database10
in-memory10
hazelcast10
storage10
distributed-systems10
java10
nodejs10
csharp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
umit/valkey-glide
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
An open source Valkey client library that supports Valkey and Redis open source 6.2, 7.0 and 7.2. Valkey GLIDE is designed for reliability, optimized performance, and high-availability, for Valkey and Redis OSS based applications. GLIDE is a multi language client library, written in Rust with programming language bindings, such as Java and Python
Contributions:54 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
umit/spring-mongodb-playground
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:26 commits in 4 months
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