I'm a Software Engineer based in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 with 8+ years of experience. I currently work at bol.com on the Optimal Checkout Experience team, building and scaling the checkout platform with Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Google Cloud.
Self-taught from a young age and later formally trained at Bilkent University (B.Sc. in Computer Technology and Information Systems), I've never lost the curiosity that got me into computers in the first place. I enjoy designing data-intensive systems, solving performance problems, and shipping things that reach millions of users.
- Languages: Kotlin, Java, JavaScript
- Backend: Spring Boot, microservices, event-driven systems
- Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm
- Cloud & Data: Google Cloud (Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataflow), AWS
- Streaming: Kafka, Kafka Streams, Akka Streams
📝 Resume: olckara.dev