Halil Özgür
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Siddhartha Garg, CSM®, PMP®
You may have heard things about the odd relationships between a dev and a QA, but if you are a QA person, you would be obliged to work with Halil. A "genius" at his work and a one stop solution for all my queries. Always eager and humble to help and accepting feedbacks with open arms in order to built a robust product. Never shies away from going an extra mile to get the work done. You ought to have him in your team if you are looking to hire the best talents around the globe.
Goran Vidakovic
Had the pleasure of working together with Halil at Whitespectre for a duration of 3 years, where we managed to collaborate on several different projects and on various teams during that time. While I'm not directly qualified when it comes to assessing Halil's development skills as a Software Engineer, indirectly I can say this. From what I've seen and heard from fellow developers and technical leaders, which both me and Halil worked with. It's clear to me that Halil is a very gifted individual when it comes to developing / coding, both in terms of code quality and productive velocity. He's also very engaged and eager to learn / achieve the goals that are set in front of him. Halil's greatest traits (from my point of view) as a developer and a human being are, his soft skills, humbleness, and respectfulness towards others peoples opinion and culture. The soft skills makes the task of collaborating with Halil as easy as breathing air into your lungs. And that's just not my own opinion, I've got this exact feedback from a lot of other people that have experience from collaborating with Halil. Hi is a very very kind individual, both on meetings and in face-to-face situations as well. You always get the impression that Halil was raised in a family with great respect for the soft and humane skills that every single one of us as a standard thing, should posses. Being humble and respectful as a person, kicks in while you're talking / having discussions with him. He listens so very well to other people's thought and ideas before making an assessment of the situation, or presenting his idea for the problem / task at hand. When Halil says that he's gonna do something, he does it and that's that. No fuzz, no back and forth (unless more explaining needs to be done), he just gets on top of things and solves whatever problem/issue/task it might be. Working remotely is something that Halil does flawlessly. He's punctual, pays attention on the team meetings and contributes to discussions when / where he is able to. Understands all the basic stuff really well, like for example the online presence of oneself, and how to "do" that in a good manner. A pleasure to have him on any team meeting. During our 3 years of working together, Halil has demonstrated that he understands and enacts upon everything with regards to the Agile methodology (Scrum framework) which we used in the organisation, and with our (client) teams. The dedication of getting the job done from Halil's side, made the day-to-day work a breeze for his colleges. All in all, an awesome team player. Superb communicator when it comes to the everyday (online) communication, be it with the internal or the client / stakeholder team. I have no doubt in my mind that Halil would be a huge asset to any (Scrum) team / organisation. Especially when it comes to remote work since, in that field he has accumulated a lot of experience, and knows how to perform it really well. All the best and hope to work
Siddhartha Garg, CSM®, PMP®
You may have heard things about the odd relationships between a dev and a QA, but if you are a QA person, you would be obliged to work with Halil. A "genius" at his work and a one stop solution for all my queries. Always eager and humble to help and accepting feedbacks with open arms in order to built a robust product. Never shies away from going an extra mile to get the work done. You ought to have him in your team if you are looking to hire the best talents around the globe.
Goran Vidakovic
Had the pleasure of working together with Halil at Whitespectre for a duration of 3 years, where we managed to collaborate on several different projects and on various teams during that time. While I'm not directly qualified when it comes to assessing Halil's development skills as a Software Engineer, indirectly I can say this. From what I've seen and heard from fellow developers and technical leaders, which both me and Halil worked with. It's clear to me that Halil is a very gifted individual when it comes to developing / coding, both in terms of code quality and productive velocity. He's also very engaged and eager to learn / achieve the goals that are set in front of him. Halil's greatest traits (from my point of view) as a developer and a human being are, his soft skills, humbleness, and respectfulness towards others peoples opinion and culture. The soft skills makes the task of collaborating with Halil as easy as breathing air into your lungs. And that's just not my own opinion, I've got this exact feedback from a lot of other people that have experience from collaborating with Halil. Hi is a very very kind individual, both on meetings and in face-to-face situations as well. You always get the impression that Halil was raised in a family with great respect for the soft and humane skills that every single one of us as a standard thing, should posses. Being humble and respectful as a person, kicks in while you're talking / having discussions with him. He listens so very well to other people's thought and ideas before making an assessment of the situation, or presenting his idea for the problem / task at hand. When Halil says that he's gonna do something, he does it and that's that. No fuzz, no back and forth (unless more explaining needs to be done), he just gets on top of things and solves whatever problem/issue/task it might be. Working remotely is something that Halil does flawlessly. He's punctual, pays attention on the team meetings and contributes to discussions when / where he is able to. Understands all the basic stuff really well, like for example the online presence of oneself, and how to "do" that in a good manner. A pleasure to have him on any team meeting. During our 3 years of working together, Halil has demonstrated that he understands and enacts upon everything with regards to the Agile methodology (Scrum framework) which we used in the organisation, and with our (client) teams. The dedication of getting the job done from Halil's side, made the day-to-day work a breeze for his colleges. All in all, an awesome team player. Superb communicator when it comes to the everyday (online) communication, be it with the internal or the client / stakeholder team. I have no doubt in my mind that Halil would be a huge asset to any (Scrum) team / organisation. Especially when it comes to remote work since, in that field he has accumulated a lot of experience, and knows how to perform it really well. All the best and hope to work
Siddhartha Garg, CSM®, PMP®
You may have heard things about the odd relationships between a dev and a QA, but if you are a QA person, you would be obliged to work with Halil. A "genius" at his work and a one stop solution for all my queries. Always eager and humble to help and accepting feedbacks with open arms in order to built a robust product. Never shies away from going an extra mile to get the work done. You ought to have him in your team if you are looking to hire the best talents around the globe.
Goran Vidakovic
Had the pleasure of working together with Halil at Whitespectre for a duration of 3 years, where we managed to collaborate on several different projects and on various teams during that time. While I'm not directly qualified when it comes to assessing Halil's development skills as a Software Engineer, indirectly I can say this. From what I've seen and heard from fellow developers and technical leaders, which both me and Halil worked with. It's clear to me that Halil is a very gifted individual when it comes to developing / coding, both in terms of code quality and productive velocity. He's also very engaged and eager to learn / achieve the goals that are set in front of him. Halil's greatest traits (from my point of view) as a developer and a human being are, his soft skills, humbleness, and respectfulness towards others peoples opinion and culture. The soft skills makes the task of collaborating with Halil as easy as breathing air into your lungs. And that's just not my own opinion, I've got this exact feedback from a lot of other people that have experience from collaborating with Halil. Hi is a very very kind individual, both on meetings and in face-to-face situations as well. You always get the impression that Halil was raised in a family with great respect for the soft and humane skills that every single one of us as a standard thing, should posses. Being humble and respectful as a person, kicks in while you're talking / having discussions with him. He listens so very well to other people's thought and ideas before making an assessment of the situation, or presenting his idea for the problem / task at hand. When Halil says that he's gonna do something, he does it and that's that. No fuzz, no back and forth (unless more explaining needs to be done), he just gets on top of things and solves whatever problem/issue/task it might be. Working remotely is something that Halil does flawlessly. He's punctual, pays attention on the team meetings and contributes to discussions when / where he is able to. Understands all the basic stuff really well, like for example the online presence of oneself, and how to "do" that in a good manner. A pleasure to have him on any team meeting. During our 3 years of working together, Halil has demonstrated that he understands and enacts upon everything with regards to the Agile methodology (Scrum framework) which we used in the organisation, and with our (client) teams. The dedication of getting the job done from Halil's side, made the day-to-day work a breeze for his colleges. All in all, an awesome team player. Superb communicator when it comes to the everyday (online) communication, be it with the internal or the client / stakeholder team. I have no doubt in my mind that Halil would be a huge asset to any (Scrum) team / organisation. Especially when it comes to remote work since, in that field he has accumulated a lot of experience, and knows how to perform it really well. All the best and hope to work
Siddhartha Garg, CSM®, PMP®
You may have heard things about the odd relationships between a dev and a QA, but if you are a QA person, you would be obliged to work with Halil. A "genius" at his work and a one stop solution for all my queries. Always eager and humble to help and accepting feedbacks with open arms in order to built a robust product. Never shies away from going an extra mile to get the work done. You ought to have him in your team if you are looking to hire the best talents around the globe.
Goran Vidakovic
Had the pleasure of working together with Halil at Whitespectre for a duration of 3 years, where we managed to collaborate on several different projects and on various teams during that time. While I'm not directly qualified when it comes to assessing Halil's development skills as a Software Engineer, indirectly I can say this. From what I've seen and heard from fellow developers and technical leaders, which both me and Halil worked with. It's clear to me that Halil is a very gifted individual when it comes to developing / coding, both in terms of code quality and productive velocity. He's also very engaged and eager to learn / achieve the goals that are set in front of him. Halil's greatest traits (from my point of view) as a developer and a human being are, his soft skills, humbleness, and respectfulness towards others peoples opinion and culture. The soft skills makes the task of collaborating with Halil as easy as breathing air into your lungs. And that's just not my own opinion, I've got this exact feedback from a lot of other people that have experience from collaborating with Halil. Hi is a very very kind individual, both on meetings and in face-to-face situations as well. You always get the impression that Halil was raised in a family with great respect for the soft and humane skills that every single one of us as a standard thing, should posses. Being humble and respectful as a person, kicks in while you're talking / having discussions with him. He listens so very well to other people's thought and ideas before making an assessment of the situation, or presenting his idea for the problem / task at hand. When Halil says that he's gonna do something, he does it and that's that. No fuzz, no back and forth (unless more explaining needs to be done), he just gets on top of things and solves whatever problem/issue/task it might be. Working remotely is something that Halil does flawlessly. He's punctual, pays attention on the team meetings and contributes to discussions when / where he is able to. Understands all the basic stuff really well, like for example the online presence of oneself, and how to "do" that in a good manner. A pleasure to have him on any team meeting. During our 3 years of working together, Halil has demonstrated that he understands and enacts upon everything with regards to the Agile methodology (Scrum framework) which we used in the organisation, and with our (client) teams. The dedication of getting the job done from Halil's side, made the day-to-day work a breeze for his colleges. All in all, an awesome team player. Superb communicator when it comes to the everyday (online) communication, be it with the internal or the client / stakeholder team. I have no doubt in my mind that Halil would be a huge asset to any (Scrum) team / organisation. Especially when it comes to remote work since, in that field he has accumulated a lot of experience, and knows how to perform it really well. All the best and hope to work
Experience
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Team Brilliant
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Andorra
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jan 2023 - Present
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Software Consultant
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2006 - Present
Created and maintained a lot of small and a few middle-size projects, usually in the space of e-commerce, classifieds, web portals, news, CMS, and corporate identity. Responsibilities: - Created small to mid-sized full-stack projects from scratch using designs; - Managed client expectations and estimations; - Created API docs; - Created and managed hosting infrastructure; - Supported mobile apps through APIs. Tech: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Heroku, AWS, Linux, Bootstrap, Sass, CoffeeScript, jQuery, PHP, Memcached Show less
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Elixirator
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Singapore
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Ruby Engineer
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May 2022 - Nov 2022
E-commerce and marketplace for buying and selling new and used furniture. Provides searching and filtering, with preliminary work to support multiple languages. Responsibilities: - Planned & implemented new features, bug fixes, and technical improvements; - Conducted code reviews, merges, and refactorings; - Managed search with faceting and filtering; - Optimized database queries, Ruby performance, and memory management; - Managed payment integrations with Stripe and PayPal; - Optimized the frontend for performance and SEO using Lighthouse metrics and structured data. Tech: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Algolia, Heroku, AWS, Bootstrap, Stimulus JS, GTM, Stripe, PayPal, Scrum/Agile Show less
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Limestone Digital
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Czechia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Developer
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Nov 2021 - May 2022
Supply chain & logistics (yard management) company with different types of clients and stakeholders. Features include workflows, scheduling, automation, notifications, graphical UI, and very detailed user/role management. Responsibilities: - Implemented new features and fixed bugs; - Conducted code reviews; - Created and planned user & technical stories in an Agile/Scrum environment; - Refactored legacy code. Tech: Microservices, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS OpsWorks / RDS / ElastiCache / SNS / SQS, Foundation CSS, Scrum/Agile Show less
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Whitespectre
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Spain
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Ruby on Rails Developer
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Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Social commerce company in the US. Ethically made, boutique style, and artisan-made fashion items. Customizable designs and inscriptions. Earnings for artisans. Scale: 5-10M users, ~20 microservices, ~15 teams. Responsibilities: - Created, groomed, and implemented user stories/technical designs; - Supported multiple frontends and mobile apps via APIs; - Maintained and created microservices in an Event-Driven Architecture; - Mentored junior team members and helped QA with testing; - Supported production in on-calls and during traffic spikes with ad-hoc solutions, distributed tracing & debugging, and Grafana metrics; - Helped plan and manage project releases with inter-service dependencies; - Wrote investigation/RFC/architecture documents; - Handled payment integration and improved error handling with Cybersource; - Reduced a multi-team and multi-week project to merge multiple search features into a few days of effort. Tech: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, Splunk, Docker, Rancher, Scrum/Agile Show less
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Yemek Guru
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Türkiye
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Food & Beverages
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1 - 100 Employee
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Co-founder & CTO
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Mar 2014 - Apr 2016
Yemek Guru is a food recipe startup with 2M+ Turkcell subscribers. It provides recipes for a given set of ingredients. It also features personalized suggestions. Responsibilities: - Created a graphical dashboard for reporting, aggregations, and analysis; - Calculated personalized relevance score for recipes; - Managed existing EventMachine architecture with blocking issues and MongoDB; - Scaled from thousands of messages to 4M+/hour. Tech: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, concurrent EventMachine fibers & MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Solr, Capistrano Show less
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Nette Interactive
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Türkiye
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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CTO
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May 2010 - Apr 2015
Projects: Review aggregators, classifieds, e-commerce, deals, portals, news Responsibilities: - Communicated with customers & stakeholders; - Provided estimations and created documentation for RFPs, SRS', etc.; - Documented and implemented security and coding standards and measures; - Managed and optimized PHP, MySQL, servers, and frontends for performance and SEO - Example: Implemented custom binary search in JavaScript; - Mentored junior team members. Tech: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Solr, Sphinx Search, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Bootstrap Show less
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Web Developer
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Aug 2007 - May 2010
Projects: The most popular Whois app in Turkey, e-commerce, corporate identity, custom apps Responsibilities: - Communicated with customers and stakeholders; - Provided and managed estimations and expectations; - Mentored teammates and set guidelines for security and performance; - Created performant and secure backends, frontends, and admin panels. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, ASP Projects: The most popular Whois app in Turkey, e-commerce, corporate identity, custom apps Responsibilities: - Communicated with customers and stakeholders; - Provided and managed estimations and expectations; - Mentored teammates and set guidelines for security and performance; - Created performant and secure backends, frontends, and admin panels. Tech: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, ASP
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Education
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2000 - 2007
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
Electrical and Electronics Engineering -
2008 - 2013
Anadolu Üniversitesi
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration
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