Murat Kirazkaya
Target Roles: Full-Stack Developer, Backend Developer, DevOps / Platform Engineer, Developer Tooling / Open Source Engineer, DevRel (Developer Relations)
Education
Associate of Science in Computer Programming · Ordu, Turkey
Relevant Coursework: OOP, Database Systems (SQL, Triggers, Functions), Web Programming, Network Fundamentals, Open Source OS, System Analysis & Design, Server Operating Systems
Experience
Remote · Full-Time
Promoted from internship to operations role in collaborative team environment. Manage production systems, backend infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment pipelines for operational reliability. Work with cross-functional teams using Git workflow and async collaboration.
Remote · Internship
Frontend development internship in team setting focused on modern web technologies and user interface implementation. Collaborated using Git branching strategies and preview environments.
Istanbul · Hybrid · Internship
Web development internship delivering client projects with modern JavaScript frameworks in collaborative team environment.
Istanbul · On-site · Internship
Selected for in-person phase at Insider's office following 6-month application process. Worked on enterprise-scale web applications in team collaboration environment.
Open Source Contributions
Ranked #68 among 300,000 developers in Turkey and #11,851 among 50 million developers globally based on open-source contributions (gitista.com).
- ExpressJS Organization - Triager and Performance Working Group member. Maintain core packages across Express, jshttp, and pillarjs ecosystems (on-finished HTTP/2 support, mime-db compressibility updates). Operate at package level of Node.js HTTP stack.
- Deno Runtime - Contributed
deno init --empty feature to CLI for minimal project initialization. Merged within 24 hours by core team.
- jshttp/on-finished - Added HTTP/2 support to widely-used Node.js utility package for response completion detection.
- Kiren Runtime - Added initial Windows support to lightweight JavaScript runtime built with Zig and QuickJS. Fixed low-level runtime issues in first PR.
- Exercism - Created and published Batch scripting language track for coding education platform.
Selected Projects
- Yelix - Deno-native web framework built on Hono using standard Web APIs. Won Gold Medal (National, 1Fikir1Türkiye) and Silver Medal (Regional). TypeScript inference over decorators, no compatibility layer.
- Hackathon Platform for TUA - Full-stack event platform for Turkish Space Agency accepted by Ministry of Industry and Technology. Custom endpoint auto-discovery, dynamic route registration, OpenAPI auto-generation from Zod schemas. Built for peak registration load handling with complete audit trails.
- Dijital Staj - Multi-university internship workflow system built in team collaboration. 9-state lifecycle with 4-role RBAC, JSONB audit logging with field-level diffs. PDF form automation for government documents, ASP.NET legacy system integration via web scraping. MinIO for document storage. Live in production.
- Sportyluxe GYM - Full operational backend for 550+ member gym built as part of 4-person team (UI/UX, Android, iOS, Backend). Custom multi-tenant architecture (same-server/different-database pattern). Firebase FCM v1 protocol-level implementation with token rotation. 15K+ requests/day, 99.9% uptime on self-hosted VPS.
- ordu.dev - Community platform with custom workflow engine using Blob + dynamic imports for sandboxed code execution. Web Push (VAPID protocol) with subscription lifecycle management. Custom cron parser supporting ranges, steps, lists. 5K+ clicks/month, 50K+ impressions.
Leadership & Community
- Ordu Bilişim Topluluğu - Founded regional developer community at ordu.dev, bringing together software developers across Ordu province.
- Winterbytes 2026 - Co-organized 3-day technical camp with 230+ attendees from Black Sea region. Speakers from Node.js TSC (Rafael Gonzaga), IBM, and Trendyol.
- Attended 400+ tech events throughout career, approximately one every other day for two years.
- Featured in Kodluyoruz × Microsoft success story for outstanding progress in web development.
Technical Skills
Languages:
TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, C++, Batch, SQL
Backend:
Node.js/Deno runtime operations, Express.js (triage contributor also performance team member), Hono, Next.js, OpenAPI schema-first design
Frontend:
React, Next.js (App Router, RSC), Astro, Tailwind CSS, Capacitor, component architecture
Databases:
PostgreSQL (native client, manual migrations, indexing strategies), MongoDB (connection resilience, audit trails), ClickHouse (analytical workloads), DrizzleORM, Mongoose, MinIO S3
Infrastructure:
Self-hosted production operations (99.9% uptime), Docker multi-stage builds, Sentry observability, Firebase FCM v1, Web Push (VAPID protocol), Contentful CMS
Systems:
Multi-tenant architecture, custom workflow execution engines, RBAC with audit logging, state machine design, legacy system integration (ASP.NET scraping), real-time push notifications, distributed request tracing, fault-tolerant distributed systems
Security:
JWT with refresh rotation, bearer auth, temporary key systems (QR access control), VAPID, rate limiting, httpOnly cookies
Engineering:
CI/CD pipelines, unit and integration testing with isolated environments (containerized test databases, in-memory stores), OOP and design patterns, test-driven development, Agile methodologies, Git workflow (branching strategies, async collaboration, preview environments), code review practices, collaborative development in cross-functional teams
Languages
Turkish:
Native
English:
B2 (Upper-Intermediate)
References
Contact information for the following references is available upon request.
- Attila Alkoç (career development and developer community engagement) · IstanbulCoders Organizer and Agile Coach
- Mert Şişmanoğlu (open-source contributions and Yelix) · Open-Source Enthusiastic and CNCF Documentation Team Member
- Oğuzhan Abuhanoğlu (Sportyluxe GYM, backend engineering in cross-functional team) · Sportyluxe PM and iOS developer
- Dr. Kerem Erzurumlu (Dijital Staj internship management platform for higher education) · Ordu University CS Professor