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Furkan Topaloğlu

Software Engineer

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Profile

Backend engineer with 5+ years building high-throughput microservices in Go and Kubernetes on AWS. I specialize in taking slow, expensive, or unreliable systems and making them fast, cheap, and boring — recent work includes cutting infra costs by 85%, improving API response times by 45-55%, and pushing service uptime to 99.99%. Currently deepening my focus on platform and cloud engineering: infrastructure design, observability, and the systems that let other engineers ship confidently.

Work Experience

Backend Developer, Cimri

Nov 2021 – present

  • As part of a 4-person team, migrated view services from Scala to Go, reducing CPU and memory usage by 60%+.
  • Built and deployed scalable microservices on Kubernetes.
  • Designed Redis-backed caching layers, reducing API response time by 45%.
  • Migrated GraphQL API Gateway from Node.js to Go, achieving ~55% performance improvement.
  • Collaborated within the Product Development team, building initial PoCs and MVPs to validate and deliver new product ideas.

Fullstack Developer, OSF Digital

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021

  • Collaborated within a 20-person global team on Salesforce-based e-commerce platforms serving millions of users.
  • Delivered technical features 30% ahead of schedule by streamlining sprint planning and API design.

Frontend Developer, Rasyotek İnsan Kaynakları A.Ş

Jun 2020 – Jul 2021

  • Led the frontend modernization initiative (2-person team), rewriting legacy systems with React/Next.js.
  • Designed and implemented a shared design system, accelerating development cycles by nearly 4× across teams.
  • Reduced bug reports and onboarding time for new developers by establishing frontend best practices.

Education

Bsc. Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University

Jun 2017 – Jun 2025

Computer Programming, Süleyman Demirel University

Sep 2012 – Jun 2014

Languages

  • Turkish (Native)
  • English (Advanced)

Skills

  • Languages & Frameworks: Go (primary), TypeScript, JavaScript
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (VPC, ECS Fargate, CloudFront, EventBridge), Kubernetes
  • Databases & Caching: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Cassandra, Redis
  • Messaging: RabbitMQ
  • Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, EFK Stack