Mert Karakulak

Senior Software Engineer · Turkey

Summary

Software engineer with about seven years of experience in high-traffic backend services, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes. I enjoy finding the root cause of performance problems and writing down what I learn.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Şirket Adı

2024 – now
  • Redesigned the queueing system in the payments platform.
  • Made zero-downtime Kubernetes deployments the team standard.

Backend Developer · Şirket Adı

2021 – 2024
  • Built high-traffic REST and gRPC services.
  • Improved PostgreSQL query performance.

Full-stack Developer · Şirket Adı

2019 – 2021

Selected projects

queuectl

2026

Redis tabanlı iş kuyruklarını terminalden izlemek ve yönetmek için bir araç. Başarısız işleri yeniden kuyruğa alma ve dead-letter incelemesi destekliyor. Go, Redis

schema-diff

2025

İki PostgreSQL şemasını karşılaştırıp geri alınabilir migration dosyası üreten komut satırı aracı. TypeScript, PostgreSQL

Skills

Languages
Go, TypeScript, SQL, Python
Backend
PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, gRPC, REST
Infrastructure
Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, AWS, OpenTelemetry

Education

B.Sc. Computer Engineering

Üniversite Adı · 2015 – 2019

Languages

  • TurkishNative
  • EnglishProfessional

Last updated: September 17, 2026

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