Yagiz Degirmenci
Individual Contributor at Grand Games
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolYagiz Degirmenci is an individual contributor with six years of experience building distributed systems, high-scale networking APIs, and event-driven data pipelines. He has shipped production systems that process billions of events per day and has worked across gaming and infrastructure startups as well as established studios like Rovio. A pragmatic engineer with a taste for statistics and systems, he also experiments with trading strategies and founded a short-lived options trading venture, showing an appetite for quantitative problem solving. On open source he contributed to the well-regarded uutils/coreutils Rust rewrite by migrating numerous coreutils to clap-based argument parsing and adding tests to improve portability and reliability. Currently based in Istanbul, he focuses on turning research ideas—LLM agents, microservices and platform tooling—into maintainable production services. Colleagues would describe him as someone who blends hands-on implementation with low-level systems thinking and a streak of entrepreneurial curiosity.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Istanbul University
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
18,821reputation
2.3mreached
161answers
19questions
google-colaboratory
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json
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openapi
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fastapi
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python
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pip
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Github Skills (28)
json10
fastapi10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
clap10
coreutils10
command-line-utility10
command-line10
command-line-tool10
rust10
cross-platform9
pytorch9
opencv9
google-colaboratory9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
uutils/coreutils
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 37 commits, 29 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Yagiz contributed to the `uutils/coreutils` repository by migrating existing code to use the `clap` crate for argument parsing. This includes modifications to several coreutils, such as `chroot`, `tail`, `tsort`, `echo`, `unexpand`, `ptx`, `cat`, `cksum`, `mkfifo`, and `sum`, improving the codebase's maintainability and potentially increasing its compatibility across different platforms. The user also addressed existing issues and added new test cases to ensure the reliability of the coreutils.
command-line-toolrustlinuxgnucoreutils
ycd/fastapi
Aug 2020 - Oct 2024
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 2 months
easy-to-learnpythonuvicornasynciopydantic
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