Yves Gurcan
Principal Software Engineer at DEPT®
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolYves Gurcan is a Principal Software Engineer and engineering manager based in Portland with 9 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and cloud-native systems. He combines deep technical craft—serverless GraphQL APIs, AWS/Azure automation, authentication flows and CI/CD foundations—with a player-coach management style that empowers teams and frees leadership to focus on strategy. Known for empathetic communication and emotional intelligence, he mentors engineers, organizes community learning, and drives process improvements that reduce bus factor and speed onboarding. His background as a founder and technical consultant gives him a practical bias for delivering client-aligned solutions and sensible tradeoffs under budget and timeline constraints. A natural teacher who writes thorough documentation and templates, he routinely turns complex technical choices into clear, actionable plans. Uncommonly for an engineer at his level, he studied English literature—an asset that sharpens his communication and stakeholder-facing abilities.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English Language and Literature/Letters, English Language and Literature/Letters at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English Language and Literature/Letters at Université de Montpellier Paul-ValéryEnglish Language and Literature/Letters, English Language and Literature/Letters at University of Birmingham
French, English, Spanish, Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,130reputation
52kreached
34answers
5questions
react-hooks
top-5%
Github Skills (122)
zero-configuration10
windows10
styled-components10
media-player10
cpp10
javascript10
linux10
rpg10
midi10
audio10
playback10
html10
js10
music10
developer-tools10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
yvesgurcan/yvesgurcan.com-v3
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 270 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
yvesgurcan/code-challenges
Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
💾 Challenges for coding interviews.
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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