# About Berkay Bindebir

> Technical Team Lead and backend engineer building distributed systems, event-driven platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Berkay Bindebir is based in Istanbul, Turkey. He has delivered large-scale systems at Getir, Ounass, and PrettyLittleThing, supporting high-throughput logistics, e-commerce, and enterprise platforms serving millions of users.

His focus areas include Backend engineering, Distributed systems, Event-driven architecture, Software architecture, Amazon Web Services, Node.js, TypeScript, Observability.

## Experience

### Technical Team Lead at Autorola Group

- Period: SEP 2025 — PRESENT
- Location: Istanbul
- Leading the backend engineering team in platform architecture, release standards, and observability. Architected a multi-tenant authorization platform (NestJS, PostgreSQL, OpenFGA) and cut MTTR by 80% with centralized OpenTelemetry and Grafana.

### Senior Software Engineer at PrettyLittleThing

- Period: NOV 2022 — MAY 2025
- Location: Remote, UK
- Designed event-driven logistics systems handling >400,000 events/min using AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB; led backend delivery for the U.S. warehouse rollout.

### Software Engineer at Ounass

- Period: DEC 2021 — NOV 2022
- Location: Remote, Dubai
- Led large-scale backend migration from JavaScript to TypeScript, hardened security and token lifecycle management, and built Kafka + PostgreSQL event integrations.

### Software Engineer at Getir

- Period: JAN 2021 — DEC 2021
- Location: Remote, Istanbul
- Scaled backend services supporting millions of users across Europe and the U.S., contributing to the migration from a monolith to 20+ microservices.

## Selected work

- [Technical writing](https://berkaybindebir.dev/thoughts/): Notes on distributed systems, reliability, cloud infrastructure, Node.js, and pragmatic engineering.
- [Watermark.run](https://watermark.run): A privacy-first audio and video watermarking tool that moved FFmpeg processing from AWS Fargate into the browser with WebAssembly.

## Verified profiles

- https://github.com/berkaybindebir
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/berkaybindebir/
- https://berkaybindebir.medium.com/
- https://dev.to/berkaybindebir
- https://stackoverflow.com/users/9291797/berkay-bindebir

## Contact

- Email: berkaybindebir@gmail.com
- Canonical profile: https://berkaybindebir.dev/about/