Kadir Umut Şanel
Software Engineer
Konya
Work Preference
Summary
Software Engineer with 5 years of experience, strongly focused on data engineering, web crawling engines, data pipelines, and customer-specific reporting systems. Experienced in building automation workflows, Airflow DAGs, backend services, workers, CLI tools, and gRPC-based services using Python and Go. Strong background in SQL performance optimization, PostgreSQL schema design, indexing, partitioning, views, and materialized views, with experience reducing query times from 5–6 minutes to around 30 seconds. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, improving data reliability, supporting technical teams and customers, and contributing through mentoring, code reviews, CI/CD, and task planning.
Overview
2
2
Languages
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Mindsite
Kağıthane, İstanbul
01.2025 - 07.2026
- Developed RESTful APIs in Go.
- Configured AWS IAM roles and policies.
- Managed S3 bucket access and lifecycle settings.
- Prepared custom reports tailored to business requirements.
- Authored technical documentation for Git repositories.
- Created Go‑based spiders to improve data collection processes.
- Responded to questions from three interns and provided support and leadership during code reviews.
Junior Software Engineer
Mindsite
Kağıthane, İstanbul
11.2023 - 01.2025
- Played an active role in developing and optimizing systems that collect data from over 320 e-commerce platforms, handling 600,000 product records hourly.
- Managed daily operations to process 100 million rows of big data and ensured real-time analysis production.
- Developed algorithms using Python and modern web crawling tools to enhance the performance of data collection processes.
- Designed custom filtering mechanisms for data validation and cleansing, improving overall data quality.
- Contributed to the design of large-scale data infrastructures and the development of microservice-based solutions in collaboration with the team.
Devops Support Engineer
JotForm
09.2022 - 09.2023
- Answering customer tickets and resolving issues in the devops category
- Resolving company employee issues with RDS servers
- Collaborate with the DevOps team in the development of the system that manages the workers with the Go Programming language.
- Facilitating access to RDS servers with Google OS Login
- Conducting Co-pilot sessions with experienced DevOps Engineers
- I developed a customized load balancer with Golang.
- Creating new RDS machines with Terraform and Ansible and configuring SSH, HTTP load balancer using customized load balancer software and nginx
Devops Engineer Intern
JotForm
06.2022 - 09.2022
- We built our own custom Linux system entirely from the source code.
- Linux group and user authorizations have been made.
- Created CI/CD pipelines using Ansible and jenkins.
Full Stack Developer
Scove Systems
06.2022 - 09.2022
- Collaborated with stakeholders during development processes to confirm creative proposals and design best practices.
- Teamed on user-centric design strategy in translation of UX and business requirements into coded solutions.
- Produced websites compatible with multiple browsers.
- Tested web-based product functionality and delivered iterations to customer.
- Liaised between marketing and IT on web development projects integrating front-end assets to back-end systems.
- Troubleshot and tested software and debugged to clean up code and improve efficiency.
- Developed server-side logic in Nodejs and Golang.
- Integrated front-end elements into applications.
- Built flexible, reusable code and libraries for future use.
- Developed web platform back ends using Express and React frameworks.
- Authored code in GraphQL and Apollo within React framework.
Full Stack Developer
Robotics Automation Control Research and Development Laboratory
01.2022 - 09.2022
- Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
- Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
- Automated and implemented system backup and recovery procedures.
- Wrote code and supported architecture in high-throughput systems.
- Installed system-wide hardware components, confirming interoperation and compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Customized in-development software to clients' current hardware environments, designing applications to span multiple systems.
- Authored development guidelines to expedite application design efforts through ready-made frameworks.
Full Stack Developer
ELEFense.com
06.2020 - 04.2022
- Reviewed code, debugged problems and corrected issues.
- Used PHP, Python and SQL to develop and manage databases.
- Worked with back-end developers to design APIs.
- Mentored junior members and delivered training to boost team skills set.
- Managed development milestones from initial steps through final delivery.
- Analyzed existing software implementations to identify areas requiring improvement.
- Provided software application engineering and maintenance for development lifecycle.
- Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
Skills
Python
Go
Javascript, TS
PHP
PostgreSQL
Docker
Work Availability
monday
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References
İsmail Arapzade CEO at Mindsite (ismail@themindsite.com)
Ali Göksu Özkan CTO at Mindsite (ali@themindsite.com)
Burak Can Sınmaz TM at Mindsite (burak@themindsite.com)
Timeline
Software Engineer
Mindsite
01.2025 - 07.2026
Junior Software Engineer
Mindsite
11.2023 - 01.2025
Devops Support Engineer
JotForm
09.2022 - 09.2023
Devops Engineer Intern
JotForm
06.2022 - 09.2022
Full Stack Developer
Scove Systems
06.2022 - 09.2022
Full Stack Developer
Robotics Automation Control Research and Development Laboratory
01.2022 - 09.2022
Full Stack Developer
ELEFense.com
06.2020 - 04.2022