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Name Ugur Köysüren
Label Senior Software Engineer & Consultant
Email [email protected]
Phone +49 175 7302616
Url https://ugurkoysuren.com
Summary Senior IT Consultant with nearly 10 years of experience delivering scalable cloud-native applications and distributed systems. Expert in Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS. Contributor to open source and active tech blogger.

Work

  • 2023.07 - Present
    Senior Software Engineer
    Headsquare GmbH / Versicherungskammer Bayern
    Leading architecture of event-sourcing system with Kafka, reducing notification latency by 65%. Managing cloud deployments on OpenShift.
    • Real-time communication system for 200k+ users
    • Event-driven microservices with Java 21
    • Deployment automation via Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • 2022.03 - 2023.07
    Senior Software Engineer
    inovex Gmb
    Built caching and streaming pipelines for health tech and retail systems using Redis, GraphQL, and NATS.
    • 92% faster analysis via in-memory cache
    • GraphQL APIs and event-based architecture
    • Improved API latency from 1.2s to 280ms
  • 2017.10 - 2022.03
    Software Engineer / Consultant
    isento GmbH / Public Sector Projects & KA-VKA
    Delivered secure e-government and environmental data systems, implemented OAuth2-based security for 2M+ users.
    • OAuth2/JWT authentication for national systems
    • Document processing with Apache Tika (10k+/day)
    • Developed an AI training platform with 3D simulation

Education

  • 2020.07 - 2021.07

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Master
    Boğaziçi University
    Business Information Systems
    • Cloud Computing
    • Database Management
  • 2013.08 - 2017.10

    Istanbul, Turkey

    Bachelor
    Özyeğin University
    Electrical & Electronics Engineering
    • Digital Signal Processing
    • C Programming

Certificates

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation 2023-01-01
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services 2021-01-01

Skills

Backend Engineering
Java
Spring Boot
Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud Infrastructure
Kubernetes
OpenShift
AWS
Docker
Frontend
Angular
TypeScript

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Turkish
Native speaker

Projects

  • 2024.01 - Present
    cBioPortal Contributor
    Contributing to open source cancer genomics platform used globally.
    • Enhancing UI and improving data access APIs
  • 2020.01 - Present
    ugurkoysuren.com
    Personal tech blog with articles on cloud, DevOps, and system design.
    • 2000+ monthly readers
    • Top posts on Geo-Fencing & Push Notifications

Interests

Technology
Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems
System Design
Open Source
Community contribution
Technical writing