Senior Backend Engineer (Mobile Apps API) at PlanetArt.com
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Internet Brands
Lead Software Engineer
February 2018 to January 2019
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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January 2013 to December 2017
New York City Metropolitan Area
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PlanetArt.com
Senior Backend Engineer (Mobile Apps API)
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
• Designed, architected, tested, and deployed in-house web-based systems. • Improved overall code-base for the result of increasing Google page-speed scores of the SEO oriented application • Led the development of upgrading Laravel 4.2 to 5.7 which resulted in increased page speeds and also implemented asset management using npm• Optimized speed in API calls by refactoring code... • Designed, architected, tested, and deployed in-house web-based systems. • Improved overall code-base for the result of increasing Google page-speed scores of the SEO oriented application • Led the development of upgrading Laravel 4.2 to 5.7 which resulted in increased page speeds and also implemented asset management using npm• Optimized speed in API calls by refactoring code and introducing a new caching mechanism using Redis • Built vagrant dev environment for other developers which mirrors the production server• Wrote bash scripts to automate deployment using Jenkins, collaborated with the Q&A team which led to improved test automations • Created technical documentations on Confluence to help developers understand development changes, mentored and reviewed other developer’s code
What company does Volkan Yavuz work for?
Volkan Yavuz works for Internet Brands
What is Volkan Yavuz's role at Internet Brands?
Volkan Yavuz is Lead Software Engineer
What industry does Volkan Yavuz work in?
Volkan Yavuz works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Volkan Yavuz's colleagues?
Volkan Yavuz's colleagues are Ping Tsai, Eric Vratimos, and Jeremie L.
💼 Past Experience
Volkan Yavuz has been working as a backend engineer and platform engineer at PlanetArt.com and Forbes where he was responsible for the architecture, development, and maintaining a up-time of the internal company's publishing platform, Editorial Tools. He also had a role in the redesign of next generation web application for a Fortune 500 company's extranet, intranet and public facing website. As a software engineer, he was responsible for coding and implementation of clientcms using ZendFramework and MySQL. He also was responsible for managing, development, staging, testing and production servers on a load-balanced Linux environment. Internationally, he was responsible for implementation of MyBuilding.org v2.0, and for making use of Zend_Db and its adapters with SQL statements rewritten and memcaching enabled. Additionally, he was responsible for providing performance tuning towards the admin/backend development for allowance of high-traffic.
🎓 Education
Volkan Yavuz has a B.S. in Computer Science from City University of New York-Hunter College in 2006. He then went on to attend the University of California, Berkeley where he earned his M.S. in Computer Science in2011. During his time at Berkeley, he also worked on a research project with the software engineering research group at Intel.Volkan’s research focused on a particular type of quantum computer architecture. While he was at Berkeley, he also worked on a number of other research projects, most notably a quantum computing simulator. He is currently a post-doctoral associate at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Strathclyde in Scotland. There he is researching the performance of different quantum computing architectures and some of the potential implications of this research.
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
In his professional experience, Volkan Yavuz has managed and developed web-based systems from start-up to a Fortune 500 company’s Extranet, Intranet and Publicfacing website. He has also successfully implemented Memcached on production and staging servers, configured and managed Git in all servers, wrote code with technical documentation that is scalable and maintainable, and been a leading post-launch hot bug fixing expert. In his private language of C#, Volkan Yavuz is versatile and contributes to various technical projects with great skills in agile techniques.
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