BERKAY BINDEBIR

ABOUT.

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

LOCATION: ISTANBUL, TURKEY
[SUMMARY]

I have delivered large-scale systems at Getir, Ounass, and PrettyLittleThing, supporting high-throughput logistics, e-commerce, and enterprise platforms serving millions of users.

Passionate about distributed system reliability, event-driven architectures, observability, and building high-leverage developer tooling.

[EXPERIENCE]
SEP 2025 — PRESENTTechnical Team Lead @ Autorola Group(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.

NOV 2022 — MAY 2025Senior Software Engineer @ PrettyLittleThing(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.

DEC 2021 — NOV 2022Software Engineer @ Ounass(Remote, Dubai)

Led large-scale backend migration from JavaScript to TypeScript, hardened security and token lifecycle management, and built Kafka + PostgreSQL event integrations.

JAN 2021 — DEC 2021Software Engineer @ Getir(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]

Distributed platforms

Multi-tenant authorization, event-driven logistics, and observability platforms designed for high throughput and reliable operations.

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[CONTACT]

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I’m always interested in thoughtful conversations about backend architecture, reliability, and engineering leadership.

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