Umut Utkan
Principal Engineer at Coupang
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUmut Utkan is a Principal Engineer with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and delivering scalable web and distributed systems across Amazon, Meta, Coupang and Sony. He blends end-to-end ownership—from requirements and architecture to coding, testing and agile coaching—and has held roles as scrum master, product owner and technical lead. A pragmatic advocate of TDD, CI and iterative delivery, he has led large migration and architecture programs (including global CMS and platform modernizations) and introduced modern tooling and processes at scale. His technical focus includes NoSQL and scalable systems, dynamic and domain-specific languages, and he routinely experiments with new technologies to validate production fit. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep technical craftsmanship with a strong track record of mentoring teams to improve delivery and quality. Notably, his background spans both academic research in optimization/HPC and extensive enterprise-ecommerce/Content Management system implementations, giving him a rare mix of theory and practice.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Nuh Mehmet Baldoktu Anatolian High SchoolMSc, Electrical Engineering, MSc, Electrical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (8)
binding10
spring-social10
salesforce9
connectivity9
api8
rest-api8
rest8
spring7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
umut/parent-checker
Apr 2011 - Jul 2011
Contributions:14 commits in 3 months
umut/qibla
Jul 2010 - Jul 2010
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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