Murat Kirazkaya
Education
Associate of Science in Computer Programming · Ordu, Turkey · GPA 3.57 · Department Valedictorian
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
#68 / 300,000developers in Turkey · open-source contributions (gitista.com)
#11,851 / 50Mdevelopers globally · open-source contributions (gitista.com)
#123 / 4,192OpenJS Foundation contributors leaderboard (Jul 2025 – Jul 2026)
#10 / 754Express.js organization contributors leaderboard (Jul 2025 – Jul 2026)
- 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.
- 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 Bilişim Topluluğu - 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.
- OGID Mobile App - Mobile application for association management covering campaign and purchase sharing, membership fee tracking, and related workflows. Responsible for backend development built on Deno, Hono, and Yelix with PostgreSQL. Developed in collaboration with a cross-functional team (mobile + backend).
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.
- SummerBytes 2026 - Organized 3-day technical camp with 100+ attendees from across Türkiye.
- 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
- Can Kurucu (Domain-Driven Design and Microservices) · Senior Software Engineer at TurkNet
- 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