Yüce Tekol
Senior Software Engineer II at Hazelcast
Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Turkey
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Top SchoolYüce Tekol is a Senior Software Engineer II with 13 years of experience designing and implementing backend systems for analytics and distributed platforms, currently at Hazelcast in Gaziantep, Turkey. He has a strong foundation in data-focused engineering from roles at Pilosa and Molecula and has contributed to FeatureBaseDB by refactoring core Protocol Buffer schemas and adopting Gogo Protobuf to optimize bitmap and query data models. A former founder of a software company, he blends hands-on systems work with product-minded engineering and a track record of improving core storage and retrieval mechanisms. Academically grounded with an MS in Computer Engineering, he brings both research experience and practical startup grit to large-scale, performance-sensitive systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.41 / 4.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, 3.41 / 4.00 at Eastern Mediterranean University
Turkish, English
Github Skills (9)
databases10
go10
database10
protocol-buffers10
data-structure9
data-structures9
bitmaps8
bitmap8
big-data8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
FeatureBaseDB/featurebase
Nov 2016 - Jul 2019
A crazy fast analytical database, built on bitmaps. Perfect for ML applications. Learn more at: http://docs.featurebase.com/. Start a Docker instance: https://hub.docker.com/r/featurebasedb/featurebase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:416 commits, 183 PRs, 74 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yüce's contributions primarily involved modifying and updating the internal Protocol Buffer definitions within the featurebase repository. They updated the code to use the Gogo Protobuf library and made changes to the structure of data models, particularly for the database, bitmap, and query-related objects. These changes suggest a focus on the core data storage and retrieval mechanisms of the analytical database.
pythonperfectml-applicationsfiredata-science
yuce/hazelcast-client-protocol
Feb 2021 - Feb 2025
Hazelcast Open Binary Client Protocol
Contributions:37 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years
hazelcast
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