Yilmaz Çeçen
Software Engineer at Netflix
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYilmaz Çeçen is a software engineer with 6+ years of experience building and operating large distributed systems, currently focused on service networking and resiliency for live streaming at Netflix. He has a strong track record at major cloud and consumer platforms—leading critical launches at AWS (MSK, Lambda@Edge) and contributing to iMessage/FaceTime backend features like SharePlay at Apple. His background spans low-latency delivery, Kafka platform work, and large-scale control/data plane design, with hands-on experience from early prototype to GA. Yilmaz emphasizes long-term system evolution and pragmatic resource efficiency over chasing specific technologies, a philosophy reflected in cross-organizational work and operational ownership. Based in Seattle, he blends deep systems engineering with product-minded collaboration across teams. An early contributor and tech lead on multiple service launches, he’s comfortable navigating both architecture and critical-path code.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science and Engineering, BSc Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci UniversityHigh School Diploma Math and Natural Sciences, High School Diploma Math and Natural Sciences at Bornova Anadolu LisesiErasmus Exchange Student Computer Science, Erasmus Exchange Student Computer Science at Uppsala University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (97)
proxy10
accelerator10
cloud-native10
golang10
high-performance10
kafka-consumer10
kubernetes10
kafka10
apache10
java10
scala10
apache-kafka10
bluepill9
pong9
adafruit9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cancecen/envoy
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Contributions:4 PRs, 68 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years
golanggossiptencent-cloudproxyscale
cancecen/tinygo
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Go compiler for small places. Microcontrollers, WebAssembly (WASM/WASI), and command-line tools. Based on LLVM.
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 3 months
golangtoolingbazel-rulescompilationbazel
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