Umut Tufan
R&D Director at Cimri
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolUmut Tufan is an R&D Director and seasoned technology leader with over 15 years of experience building and scaling high‑traffic web platforms from infrastructure to product. As CTO at Cimri he leads 60+ engineers across DevOps, backend, frontend, product and QA, driving a microservices and cloud-native stack on AWS with EKS, CI/CD pipelines and real‑time data systems. He combines hands‑on expertise in Java, C#, Go and distributed databases (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch) with a proven track record of architecting resilient, high‑load systems for major Turkish media and e‑commerce sites. An instructor and mentor who has trained aspiring developers, he blends pragmatic engineering with people leadership and an appetite for new languages and tools—he describes himself on GitHub as “try to be Gopher,” reflecting a growing interest in Go alongside long-standing C#/Java roots.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Anadolu UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Atılım Üniversitesi
English, Turkish
Github Skills (10)
visual-studio-extension5
web-components5
visual-studio4
github3
goimports3
git3
func3
golang2
go1
gofmt1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
GoodGun/zathura
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
GoodGun/gotalks
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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