Social Media Software Engineer

VEYSEL TASCIOGLU

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PERSONAL PROFILE

Results-driven and pragmatic, logical and methodical approach to achieving tasks and objectives.

Analytical and questioning, strives for quality and applies discipline towards optimizing performance.

Determined and decisive, seeks new responsibilities and uses initiative to meet and resolve challenges.

Strong interpersonal skills, works well with and influence others, motivates and encourages.

Well-organized, great planner, great time manager. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TECHBASE (06.2012 – 12.2018)

Founding Partner & Chief Technology Officer

Techbase used to be a big data & realtime big data consultancy & R&D company located in İstanbul – Turkey, has completed several successful big data projects in Turkey. Partnership with Cloudera – Hortonworks – MapR – Confluent & Sqream

Ziraat Bankası – Realtime OmniChannel Analytics Project (06.2017 – 02.2018)

Ziraat Bankası is the biggest financial institution in Turkey.

Collected realtime data from various event customer touch points, including web, mobile and ATMs.

Used collected data to store, analyze user activities realtime.

Technology Stack:

Kafka – Storm– Cassandra – ElasticSearch

Boyner Holding – Hopi- www.hopi.com.tr - Big Data Analytics Platform (02.2015 – 11.2018)

Hopi is a multitenant loyalty platform that partners with biggest brand of Turkey, aims to give personalized recommendation each and every one of its users.

Analyzed, designed, architected and implemented the Big Data Analytics platform.

Integrated with various data sources(50+ events) including Hopi application layer, mobile analytics, ibeacon sensors located in stores, Boyner and other partner CRM databases.

Consolidated data in HDFS by direct load or realtime with Storm, Kafka and Camus.

Used Pig to manage unstructured data and put into Hive tables.

Used Hive to calculate various metrics required by Marketing - CRM & Data Science teams.

Implemented 100+ Hive scripts and 1000+ metrics

Used Talend to export summarized Hive tables to Oracle Exadata to be used by all means.

Used Luigi for orchestration of data processing and ETL pipelines.

Technology Stack

Hortonworks 2.X Stack

Hadoop – HDFS – Kafka – Storm- Camus – Pig – Hive

Luigi – Talend – Oracle Exadata

Java – Python

PRIME – Horizon 2020 SME Instrument

Prime - Push Relevantly To Increase Mobile Engagement

Successfully completed Phase 1 stage of Horizon 2020 SME Instrument and granted 50.000 Euro to prepare for Phase 2 of project from European Union.

Turkcell Global Bilgi - Sniffer - Real Time Social Media Analytics Platform (2014)

Analyzed, architected and deployed 6 node Storm Cluster

Implemented Storm topologies and to analyzed social media data in realtime.

Converted old batch processing system into realtime Storm backed social media analytics platform reducing processing latency from 70+ minutes to under 200 miliseconds

Technology Stack: Kestrel - Storm – Oracle – Graphite

Crypttech – Realtime Log Analytics Platform (2014)

Collection of raw log data from various sources

Using Regex to control and convert them into desired format

Storing them into ElasticSearch to be searchable

Reached 100.000+ EPS(event per seconds) with 5 entry level(2000 USD cost each) servers.

Technology Stack:

Kafka - Storm- ElasticSearch

Other Customers & Projects

Turk.Net – Mid-Level Telco Provider – Churn Prediction – PoC

Technology Stack: Hadoop – Hive – H20 for Churn Prediction Model

GridTelekom – Security Analytics and Log Archiving - PoC

Technology Stack: NodeJS, Kafka, Storm, ElasticSearch

MPay – Kazakhstan Based Collection Company (2013)

Sql Server Database Performance Optimization & Administration & Maintenance

EMC Turkey(2012)

Resolving Banking OLTP Database(Sql Server) serious performance problem after upgrading EMC Enterprise Storage System to newer version.

Investigated, found and resolved the performance problem. INNOVA IT SOLUTIONS (02.2008 – 06.2012) (Financial Applications Department) Senior Application Development Consultant & Senior Database Administrator

PayFlex Collection (Latest version of Financial Transaction Processing product)

Architected and implemented latest version of Financial Transaction Processing product

Handles 500 business transactions per second

Implemented AzerCell Telecom (Azerbaijan) E-Payment Project using PayFlex Collection.

Payflex Collection Old Version Implementations

Maintained and solved performance, scalability, availability, consistency issues on database and application layers of all old version deployments (NPay(Ukraine), Smile-Vegatel-Telpa(Turkey))

By solving various problems mentioned above, scaled KCell Telecom (Kazakhstan) E-Payment Project 700k+ business transactions which collects 2million+ dollars daily, without any hardware improvement.

Implementation of new modules with best practices inspired from new version.

Integrated with various payment channels and operators over various technologies.

Handled massive online reporting requirements of payment channels with minimum hardware cost and cheapest version of available software.

Other Customers & Projects

Trained team members on software development best practices, including Microsoft Sql Server and IIS performance tuning.

Managed technical side of OTM (multitenant OLTP platform of Innova) with Vegatel and Telpa.

Prepared technical side of STC(Saudi Telecom) E-Payment and Integration Project Proposal.

Managed, architected and implemented Avea Commission Management POC, by exceeding customer expectations with decreasing total monthly commission process, from 24 hours to 10 minutes.

Analyzed and architected Kuwait Turk Participation Bank Collection Project.

Managed, architected and implemented KnowledgeBase (search engine with customizable search criterias like and,or ) etc.) with Turkish Language support, targeting call-centers.

Lead the management and development team adoption process to agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) and played scrum master role for a few iterations in the pilot project.

Managed continuous integration adoption process and trained team members on CI fundamentals and best practices.

Participated in recruitment processes as a technical decision maker. MILLIYET INTERNET (06.2007 – 02.2008)

Senior Software Engineer

Maintained and developed new modules of insankaynaklari.com, one of the biggest human resources company, by the time, in Turkey.

Integrated and automated the workflow of 10+ external resources with milliyet.com.tr over various technologies.

Administrated all Microsoft Sql Server instances and helped colleagues on Microsoft Sql Server and TSQL performance issues and best practices to be used in both green field and brown field projects. BIZITEK INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES (07.2005 – 12.2006)

Software Engineer

Developed and maintained modules and integrations of enterprise level TURKCELL CRM project.

Integrated 5+ different Turkcell system over various technologies.

Developed PRM(Partner Relationship Management) integration for TURKCELL external parties.

Maintained modules including PRM and Channel.

Developed Continuous Deployment and Release Management Application, which automated the release workflow, reduced the time to production(still using by current team).

Defined coding conventions of database objects and created database object templates.

Developed and completed VDF(Volkswagen Doğuş Finans) CRM project.

Developed and completed LOREAL CRM project.

LOGOSEMPA IT SOLUTIONS (06.2004 – 05.2005)

Software Engineer

Developed, completed and maintained; web based backend and mobile frontend of Sony Ericsson Sales Force Automation Project, used all over Turkey.

Analyzed, implemented, completed and documented, bulk sms-fax-email sender services and their API to be used for external and internal customers.

EDUCATION AND COURSES

Bachelor of Mathematical Engineering, Yıldız Technical University İstanbul 2005 RELATED INTERESTS

BigData; Hadoop Ecosystem, Hive, HBase; Spark Ecosystem, Spark, Spark Streaming, Spark Sql

Realtime Big Data; Storm, Spark Streaming, Flink

NoSql Databases; Cassanda, HBase, Redis, Presto, ClickHouse, TiDB, Druid

Horizontal Scalability - Distributed System Design - High Availability

Enterprise application patterns, enterprise integration patterns, design patterns

DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing

REFERENCES

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