Umur Ozkul
Freelance Software Engineer at High Tech Mind
Zoetermeer, South Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorUmur Ozkul is a seasoned freelance software engineer with 17 years of experience building production-grade systems across Rust, OCaml, Elixir, Ruby on Rails and distributed architectures. He transitioned from OCaml to Rust, leveraging functional-programming discipline to ship high-performance systems like a transactional key-value store and WebAssembly-enabled full-stack applications using Tokio, Leptos and GRPC. As a founder and technical lead he has delivered e-commerce and publishing platforms, led DNA-analysis BioIT tooling, and architected real-time tracking and query engines—often combining scripting, SQL tuning, Docker and cloud deployments. He brings hands-on experience in test automation, Agile delivery, and emerging LLM prompting to enhance software solutions. Based in Zoetermeer, NL, he pairs research-minded curiosity (e.g., evolutionary programming for trading strategies and creating the Squiggle language) with pragmatic product delivery.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, Turkish, English
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Github Skills (48)
probability10
forecasting10
elixir8
machine-learning8
realtime7
pharo6
nodes6
api-server6
phoenix-framework6
elm6
atom-editor6
pinescript6
database5
scalable5
functional-programming5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tercen/ondo
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023
RockDB extentions
Contributions:1 PR, 277 pushes, 8 branches in 11 months
umuro/squiggle
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 78 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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