Mustafa SimavSenior Software Engineer
  • +90 535 508 58 33
  • ms@msimav.net
  • Istanbul, Turkey

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of work experience specializing in building highly scalable backend systems. Consistently recognized as a skilled developer, good team player, and enthusiastic learner.

Experience

Senior Software Developertrustmeup.com
Aug 2020 - Present

TrustMeUp is a small company based in Europe that builds a marketplace to bring together NGOs, people, and companies for doing good

  • Develop new features of the core platform
  • Research and deploy blockchain technologies for financial applications
  • Improve developer tooling and business automation
Senior Software Developerxenn.io
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020

xenn.io is a SaaS startup that develops event analytics and data lake solutions for e-commerce companies

  • Develop new features of the platform and implement data pipelines to support those futures
  • Make POCs for different data tools to solve common e-commerce problems
  • Work closely with the DevOps team to improve the scaling of the working systems, monitoring, and alerts
Software DeveloperLogsign
May 2018 - Feb 2019

Logsign is a company that builds network security devices and security automation software for big enterprises and government agencies

  • Develop the new security automation product with Go
  • Help the company to adopt modern software development methodologies and tools such as Scrum and CI/CD
Software DeveloperVNGRS
Jan 2014 - Mar 2018

VNGRS is a software consultancy company that works as your remote team dedicated to your project

  • Worked for many customers ranging from small startups to middle-sized tech firms around the world
  • Developed both small prototypes for new ideas
  • Worked on mission-critical systems
  • Benchmarked and improved performance issues
  • Maintained and modernized legacy systems
  • Designed new systems from scratch

Projects

A charity platform aiming to be fully transparent on where donations are spent, using blockchain technologies.

  • Built as a Django monolith and a Hyperledger Fabric network
  • Runs on AWS with ECS and RDS

A set of API Services aiming to deliver Multi-Channel Payment and Open Banking capabilities, alongside the complementary functionality for multiple tenants, in multiple regions with multiple business processes with the vision of making embedded finance accessible to everyone.

  • Built as a group of microservices, designed with an API-first approach, written in Java
  • Deployed to AWS with docker on Kubernetes

A personalization product specialized for e-commerce applications, backed by a real-time clickstream event collector and data lake

  • Built as a group of microservices, mostly written in Scala
  • Deployed to AWS with docker on Kubernetes
  • Use Flink and Akka-Streams for CEP

An automation engine that let users build complex scenarios to be executed on various events that happened

  • Built with Go with some extensions written in Python

Event-driven activity tracking and audit system for internal usage that supports various activities and complex queries

  • Event consumer is written in Scala, persistence and query systems are integrated current system in Java
  • Built with http4s, circe, and Monix

Performance management solution to establish and communicate goals and tangible achievements

  • The backend was written in Scala with a home-grown HTTP framework
  • Modernized legacy code and improved performance while implementing new features

Skills

Language
  • Python
  • Scala
  • Go
  • Java
Frameworks
  • Django
  • Akka
Data
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ
  • Flink
Cloud
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • Cloudflare

Education

Languages

  • Turkish · native speaker
  • English · fluent
  • Italian · beginner