Yahya Cakmak
Senior Full Stack Developer (Team Lead) at Eseye
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYahya Cakmak is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO of Hirehoot, with over 15 years of hands-on experience across front-end and full-stack development in FinTech, HRtech, TravelTech, Blockchain, and AI. He combines product-driven engineering with team leadership—having led migrations to React, built React Native apps and Next.js admin panels, and managed cross-functional teams using Agile and Scrum. As founder of PopMarker he built a programmatic ad integration platform that reached $5K/day and attracted acquisition interest, demonstrating a rare mix of technical depth and commercial acumen. Yahya is focused on privacy-first, AI-enabled recruitment solutions and has significant experience integrating AI and search (ElasticSearch) into production systems. Equally comfortable in JavaScript/TypeScript stacks and backend environments (Node.js, PHP, Java/Go on GitHub), he mentors engineers and emphasizes clean, efficient code. Based in London with a geology engineering background, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary perspective to product and platform engineering.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Geological/Geophysical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Geological/Geophysical Engineering at Turkey Run, Inc.Bachelor of Engineering - BE Geological/Geophysical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Geological/Geophysical Engineering at Ankara University
Github Skills (58)
cloudinary10
vmware9
mailsender9
charts9
jwt9
exception-handling9
helm9
driver9
jpa8
distributed-locking8
rabbitmq8
spring-boot8
swagger8
kafka8
java8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mertcakmak2/GoLang-Fundamentals
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 9 pushes in 2 months
mertcakmak2/HumanResources-React
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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