Umut Uzgur
Senior Engineering Team Lead at Checkly
Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Top SchoolUmut Uzgur is a Senior Engineering Team Lead based in Bremen with 11 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and developer tools. At Checkly he progressed from Senior Engineer to leading multiple teams, driving migrations to ClickHouse, adding runtime versioning, and launching private locations and CLI/MAC initiatives while serving as an agile coach. His background includes platform and performance work at Sauce Labs and mobile testing expertise—he contributed notable refactors to the widely used Appium iOS driver, reducing dependencies and improving device management and WDA performance. He combines hands-on systems and backend engineering (Go, API gateways, SRE practices) with people leadership and delivery ownership. Known for pragmatic prototyping and data-driven migrations, he excels at turning operational challenges into reliable, production-grade services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Ozyegin UniversityÜmraniye Anatolian High School
English, Turkish, German
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Github Skills (8)
appium10
ios10
mobile-automation10
xcuitest10
swift9
objective-c9
hibernate6
hibernate-criteria6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
appium/appium-xcuitest-driver
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Appium iOS driver, backed by Apple XCTest
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:57 commits, 67 PRs, 116 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Umut primarily focused on refactoring and updating the iOS driver for Appium. Their contributions included removing dependencies on external tools such as `sips`, `idevicescreenshot`, `idevicedate`, and `idevicesyslog` and integrating with `appium-ios-device` for device management, logging, and file operations. They also removed `ios-deploy` and other dependencies, updating the project to utilize IDB and improve the performance of WDA.
appiumappium-iosiosbackedios-driver
checkly/checkly-cli
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
TS/JS native Monitoring as Code workflow
Contributions:26 releases, 339 reviews, 93 commits in 1 year 1 month
javascriptmonitoring-as-codechecklysynthetic-monitoringnodejs
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