Irfan Durmus

Date of Birth
: May 23, 1983
Language
: English / Turkish
Location
: Turkey (UTC+3)
E-mail
: irfandurmus at gmail dot com

Work Experiences

Chief Software Architect
ESW Capital (Remote)

Oct 2020 – Present, Austin/TX

I’m developing a teaching coach called Go Alpha that will help teachers to follow up progress and performance of the students. It has ML ready infrastructure that will help teachers to detect and inspect where a student struggling and need more support. Tech stack: AWS Lambda, RDS, SQL, Amplify, Step Functions, NodeJS, Docker, Git, Web scrapping to get students data from other learning platforms.

Chief Technology Officer
Stealth Startup (Remote)

Feb 2019 – Present, SF

I’m responsible of developing a sub/pub infrastrucure for a fin-tech startup founded in SF. It’s builded to handle thousands of concurrency. I build documents (playbooks) to improve developers productivity, set workflows, implemented an approach called “pipeline in technical tasks” and define workflows in issue tracking platform. Tech Stack: NodeJS, Redis (for socket sub/pub), MySQL, MongoDB, AWS, React, Material UI. Automated deployment, deployed to AWS infrastructure, automated E2E testing.

Chief Software Architect
ESW Capital (Remote)

Feb 2016 – Feb 2019, Austin/TX

My duty was to manage the transition smoothly while acquiring a company. Responsible for tech components such as code analysis and valuation, infrastructure, codebase, deployment process, automation tests. Learning the business model, making a plan to convert everything that fits the internal system, and prepare diagrams/documents. Technical lead of a team of up to 20 architects & engineers. Hands-on development if necessary. Reporting to SEM or VP. Used technologies: Docker, AWS Services, K8s, Jenkins, Network Encryption, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, MySql, Redis, MongoDB, TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, Jasmine, Grunt, PhantomJs, Karma, NodeJs, Java, Spring, JUnit, C, C++, Ruby, PHP, Memcache, Thrift, Drupal, Bash, Android, iOS. Companies: Lyris, Acquia, BiznessApps, SliSystems

Sr. Backend Developer
Good Game Studios

2014-2015, Hamburg

Advising to developers to improve work-flow and code quality, Implementing new features to the Goodgame Shop with PHP and ZendFramework 2. Optimizing MySQL and Couchbase database. Creation of Unit and Integration tests. Performance profiling. Migration of code library. Agile, ZF2, PHPUnit, Codeception, JavaScript, Couchbase, MySQL, SQLite, Linux

Full Stack Software Engineer
PropertyFinder.ae

2013-2014, Dubai

In charge an integral role in technical development and methodology. Helping recruiting and supervise the coders ability to perform quality work. Keep up to date reports on technical projects progression and coding team work. Automatize build and test process by Stage, QA and Build stages. Linux, ZF2, MySQL, Jenkins, JS, Backbone, RequireJS, NodeJS, AWS

Lead Frontend Developer
AlWasatt.com

2012-2013, Dubai

Consulted with Project Manager, offering technical expertise to ensure optimal design and implementation of the application. Responsible for developing scalable JavaScript application by Google Closure, implementation of tests using Selenium and automatized deployment via Bash Script. Conducts technical interviews, utilize Agile Methodologies as appropriate.

Sr. Software Developer
Rocket Internet MENA

2012, Istanbul & Dubai

Responsible for core developments, performance improvements and maintenance of state machine of the high load e-commerce sites. Worked within Agile metodology. Conducts technical interviews as delegate by CTO. Also used Zend Framework, MySQL, Yii Framework, Javascript, jQuery, ExtJS, Git, Memcached and various caching systems.

Sr. Software Developer
Triodor R&D

2011-2012, Istanbul

Responsible for MMO Game Development on ZF using MongoDB and other open source technologies and supporting software engineering staff. Worked in Agile, implemented payment gateway, deployment automatization, integration of the social network API’s like facebook, twitter. Also used Jenkins CI, MySQL, PHP5, Svn, Git, Shell Script.

Software Developer
Sahibinden.com

2009-2010, Istanbul

Responsible for supporting design team, writing PHP to high load web site, developing cross-browser frontend with JavaScript, CSS and valid HTML. Developing browser add-ons with dynamic content using cutting edge web browser technologies like OOP Javascript, CSS3, XUL, XML. Aslo used Git, jQuery and Bash Script.

Founder
NetAnkara IT Consulting

2005-2009, Ankara

Developed e-commerce and company sites with PHP, MySQL, Bash, JS, HTML and CSS based on customer requirements. Coordinate project completion with client and ensures that projects are efficiently delivered. Managed information security (firewall/web server) on debian/gentoo linux, spam filters, e-mail servers based on open source technologies.

IT Administrator
Vilayet Mapping

2001-2005, Ankara

Responsible for planning data architecture, reverse coding for GIS, data mining, PHP and MySQL optimizations. Also managed Apache and MySQL servers.

Education

Anadolu University – Undergraduate, Economics – 2008 / 2010
Sakarya University – Graduated, Information Management – 2006 / 2009

Specialties & Tools used to work

Node.js, PHP5, JavaScript, Mongoose, ExpressJS, MEAN Stack, LAMP Stack, MySQL, MongoDB, Couchbase, Sass, Cordova, Git, Zend 2, Yii, Symfony, Doctrine, Socket.io, Grunt/Gulp, Backbone, RequireJS, AngularJS, jQuery, Bash Script, Vim, Unit Testing, BDD, PHPUnit, JsLint, Jasmine BDD, Karma runner, Redis, Memcached, APC, Varnish, JenkinsCI, SQLite, RabbitMQ, Nginx, Apache, Apache Benchmark, Ant, Debian, Gentoo, CentOS GNU/Linux, AWS (S3 EC2 RDS SES SQS), HTML5, CSS3, Twig, Smarty, Browser Plugins, MVC, DRY, KISS, Design Patterns, Cloud Computing, Game Development, Mobile Application Development, Agile/Scrum/Waterfall methodologies, Information Management, Open Source Tools


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