Mert Çotuk

• Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
• Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
• Maintained comprehensive documentation of development work, facilitating knowledge sharing among team members.
• Explained technical trade-offs of different approaches to stakeholders and estimated development time required.
• Won 2 hackathon and 1 cyber-security challenges.
• Built databases and table structures for web applications.

Technologies: Java, Dropwizard, Google Guice, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, GraphQL, REST, Thrift, Retool

Products: Talent Scout, Project Catalog, AI Services Landing Pages, Referral Program, Document Automation, Survey Tool

• Wrote highly maintainable, solid full-stack code for software system forming core framework and earning consistent praise from subsequent developers since initial version.
• Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.

Technologies: Java, SpringBoot, AngularJS, REST, SOAP, MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka, Hazelcast

Products: CMS, subscription, music streaming, API gateway

• Detected and solved unnoticed critical time-zone bugs by analyzing root causes and providing permanent solutions which reduced 60% of application errors before production phase.
• Innovated a Postman collection generator by writing a Python application based on Swagger documentation which transformed the local & environment testing processes by developers, analysts, and QA teams.
• Initiated and led a standardized induction program which reduced time spent for newcomer orientation by 40% and was used by all teams in Turkey.

Products: Flight loyalty platform (membership, segment, card)

Technologies: Java, OJF (internal Spring alternative), REST, Python, TTS (internal regression testing tool), Oracle DB, Drools

• Increased the mobile marketing tool revenue by 25% by creating and running an automated tool that analyzed the root causes of 1/5 of the offer fulfillment failures to be fixed.

Products: Mobile marketing tool (backend & analytics)

Technologies: Java, Spring, REST, Cassandra DB, Kafka, Drools, Firebase, HDFS, Impala, Pig