Emek Erol Taydaş

Emek Erol Taydaş

About

Detail

Software Engineer (C# .NET) | An Optimist | “I use Arch BTW”
Istanbul, Türkiye

Timeline


work
Job
school
Education
folder
Project

Résumé


Jobs verified_user 0% verified
  • BetterStudio
    Founding Backend Engineer
    BetterStudio
    Aug 2025 - Current (10 months)
    • Design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable backend systems using .NET (C#), ensuring high performance and reliability across all services. • Design and improve the architecture and development of APIs and data pipelines, supporting both B2B and B2C experiences. • Model, evolve, and maintain complex relational database schemas, enabling dynamic feature development and fast iteration cycles. • Optimize application performance across the stack, with a focus on backend systems, server response times, and system throughput. • Build and maintain internal and customer-facing dashboards, with support from front-end developers or through lightweight fullstack work using Next.js, and TypeScript. • Proactively identify and resolve backe
  • Peddlestone
    Product Engineer
    Peddlestone
    Mar 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 10 months)
    • Designed and implemented 16 features such as JWT login, Stripe payment implementation, workflow execution with sagas, video processing with Azure Media Services, observability with Grafana, autocomplete with Elasticsearch, caching with Redis for global influencer peer-to-peer content sharing at Peddlestone. • Fundamentally designed and implemented event-driven architecture and CQRS with MassTransit sagas, resulting an idempotent, reactive video processing system which is under $10K budget, over $50K MRR in first 6 months. • Tutored 12 developers on TDD, CQRS, and event-driven architecture to enhance team skills. • The logo I recommended was voted to win!
  • S
    Senior Software Engineer Team Lead
    May 2018 - Jan 2022 (3 years 9 months)
    • Led a global cross functional team of 4 • Participated in design and development of 3 epics on serverless microservices with EventGrid pub/sub architecture in C# .NET • Interviewed ~70, hired 6 applicants with upper management coordination in two weeks • Lectured 5 topics for 4 months: C# fundamentals, SOLID principles, Advanced SQL and Domain-Driven Design • Successfully migrated a critical REST API to microservices, handling 300+ million calls per workday • Developed 41 user stories, fixed numerous bugs, and participated in major Azure deployments • Provided production support to a global ecosystem of 10,000+ employees and 2.5+ million customers, 3.300 locations in 130 countries with a cross function team • Worked with Jira, and both Sc
  • Overwolf
    Full Stack Developer
    Overwolf
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2017 (10 months)
    • Actively coded and designed user experience for Overwolf's flagship applications, OP.GG and Legendary Highlights. • Provided daily reports to the Project Coordinator and attended weekly discussions for app development, worked with Scrum & YouTrack • Implemented 9 user stories end-to-end, provided post-release support, and collaborated with video streaming technology partners for app enhancements.
  • T
    Senior Software Engineer Team Lead
    TES Bilişim Hizmetleri
    Aug 2012 - Aug 2016 (4 years 1 month)
    • Led a team of 7. • Built a bonus system for a men’s suit retailer based on KPI valuations, resulting in improved sales performance. • Successfully designed and developed an ETL pipeline on SSIS for 6.7 terabytes of accounting data, enhancing data processing efficiency, and an activity-based costing reporting platform for Istanbul's public transportation authority, utilizing Power BI for data visualization. • Designed and implemented an ASP.NET MVC frontend dashboard with SAP backend for 120 dealers of BMC in automative sector
  • D
    Software Developer
    Devartes
    Sep 2009 - Jun 2012 (2 years 10 months)
Education verified_user 0% verified
  • Işık Üniversitesi
    Bachelor's degree
    Işık Üniversitesi
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2009 (3 years)
Projects (professional or personal) verified_user 0% verified
  • S
    SignHere
    May 2022 - Current (4 years 1 month)
    An implementation of file signature validation as documented in ASP.NET Core file upload document. This library can validate signatures of 518 different file types, all taken from https://filesignatures.net/, as the document suggests.
  • P
    Peddlestone
    Mar 2022 - Dec 2024 (2 years 10 months)
    Monetize your inbox. On-demand peer to peer content delivery platform between influencers and their audiance. • Participated in 16 features for 3 startups in media, fintech and recruitment sectors • Designed transactional software architectures below $10K budget for $50K MRR • Tutored 12 developers on TDD, CQRS and event-driven architecture
  • I
    ISTJ
    Oct 2021 - Jan 2022 (4 months)
    Training program to acquire young and junior talents in Istanbul. • Interviewed ~70, hired 6 applicants with upper management coordination in two weeks • Lectured 5 topics for 4 months: C# fundamentals, SOLID principles, Advanced SQL and Domain-Driven Design
  • C
    ClosingCorp
    Jan 2021 - Nov 2021 (11 months)
    Appraisal, closing and documentation automation for US mortgage orders. • Led a cross functional team of 4 • Participated in design and development of 3 epics on serverless microservices with EventGrid pub/sub architecture in C# .NET and Azure Functions • Worked with Scrum / Jira Manager: Adnan Catovic – Authority Partners Engineering Manager Special Mention: Lori CLARK – ClosingCorp Lead Architect
  • M
    MST Production Support
    Mar 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 10 months)
    I moved to the “Production Support” for IWG plc systems, representing my original project Proton API. With 10.000 employees, ~2.5 million+ customers, 3.300+ locations in 130+ countries, it is a great challenge to provide technical assistance for such a scale. Working with a cross-system, cross function, multinational team backed up with many reporters around the world and a QA team - this is a hospital’s emergency room, where I needed to act quickly and precisely to any possible escalations. I also experienced the need and the benefit of excellent communication skills to lead and coordinate crises from product owners to upper management when needed, if needed. • Provided production support to an ecosystem of 10.000+ employees, 2.5+ million
  • P
    Proton API
    May 2018 - Mar 2019 (11 months)
    Middleware to all IWG plc systems, Proton API is a set of microservices that gets 300+ million calls on average every workday. Both huge in terms of scale and organization, being a part of the Proton Team not only required the technical skills, but the communication skills to bridge gaps between different system owners and parties. Stability and performance were top concerns while maintaining a respectable delivery pace. I worked on migrating features and endpoints from the legacy system, while also developing other features and user stories as assigned. • Successfully migrated a critical REST API that takes 300+ millions of unique calls per workday to microservices from legacy systems • Developed 41 user stories, fixed countless bugs • Par
  • O
    OP.GG
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2017 (10 months)
    My first project in Overwolf platform, OP.GG provides real time statistics to any League of Legends player when they enter a new match. All information about the opposing team and the player’s team is provided by the application. Therefore, OP.GG application is a massive knowledge boost to any player before the game even begins. • Active coding • UX design • Daily reporting to the Project Coordinator • Post release support Project Coordinator: Elazar HEIM – Overwolf VP of Apps Project Manager: Rami DAVIDOV – Overwolf Product Manager Special Mention: Itay GLIKSMAN – Overwolf Dev Platform Manager
  • L
    Legendary Highlights
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2017 (10 months)
    One of the oldest and most downloaded applications in the market, Legendary Highlights is one of the company’s flagships. In a League of Legends game, Legendary Highlights records the very best moments of the player, and compiles it into a single video after the match, giving a chance to the player to prove their prowness in combat. With the partnership of the Israeli company Idoomoo, Legendary Highlights is one of the most important applications in the market. • Attend to weekly discussions about the development of the app • Active coding • Post release support • Feature implementation Project Coordinator: Alon RABINOVITZ – Overwolf Co-founder Project Manager: Yuval GELBALD – Overwolf Senior Product Manager Special Mention: David ZOLTAN –
  • B
    BMC Dealer Portal
    Mar 2016 - Apr 2016 (2 months)
    A SAP integrated web portal, designed to carry out orders, handle post-sale repair reports, spare part ordering, archiving bills and calculating bonuses for dealers and HQ. Since SAP is the server-side solution of this project and the owner of the data flow, I worked on the client side, securing user experience to the lower level users. • To develop a SAP client portal for low-profile users – UX challenge • Coordination • Active coding • Communications with the client’s client, presentations and training Project Manager: Ulaş BAŞLAMIŞ – Itelligence BMC Project Manager Project Lead: Sevgi ÖNCÜL – Itelligence BMC SD Senior Consultant Special Mention: Emrah YILDIZ – BMC IT Infrastructure Manager
  • İ
    İETT Meeting Management System
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (2 years)
    A project made on request by the customer, Meeting Management System is an extended calendar which can track meetings and conclusions of meetings. Coupled with a lightly-scaled BI approach, these conclusions, decisions and results are tracked as business processes. I took the team lead role which includes active coding, managing and customer relations. • Developer team management and coordination • Code control and refactor • Correction of errors in the system and development post-release • Customer and management relationships & coordination Project Manager: Muhammet YAVUZ – İETT IT Smart Systems Chief
  • İ
    İETT Activity-Based Costing
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2016 (3 years)
    First activity based costing system in Turkish public services, ABC collects data from various databases, transpozes collected resources into meaningful data collections after filtering, and represents them into carefully analysed and depthed reports designed towards aiding strategic decisions of the senior management. The system is fictionalized on the universal 7/A accounting plan, and its subject varies from the costs of paper used in departments to depreciation over time, exchange differences in the changes to fuel costs for operations, allowing the calculation of actual costs assesing directly and indirectly. In particular, all fiction and architecture of this project requires doubtless precision because it is aimed towards public sect
  • İ
    İETT Debt Follow-up System
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2015 (2 years)
    A project designed to follow debts of institutions and people as individuals to the government. It’s written for public services and has a special edition for İETT Financial Services. System can generate legal reports for government inspectors and works integrated with the organization’s accounting database. I worked on managing the team, and also participated in development post-release. • Developer team management and coordination • Code control and refactor • Correction of errors in the system and development post-release • Customer and management relationships & coordination Project Manager: Şeyhmus ORAL – İETT Financial Services Chief
  • K
    KPI Bounty & Performance System
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2014 (3 years)
    Designed exclusively for retail, this is a performance and bounty system built on KPI criterias for every employee in the firm, allowing business developers and HR to careful analyse employee performances based on their own special terms, and sales departmant to split employee extra bounties justly. I worked as a Senior Developer and the Project Lead. • Fixing problems post-release and developing new features • Developer team management • Customer relationships • Presentations and customer training Project Manager: Geylani DÖNMEZ – Süvari Textile Business Development Specialist
  • K
    Kobiva
    Jan 2010 - Dec 2012 (3 years)
    Content management system for SMEs. (Web)
  • L
    Lobiva
    Nov 2009 - Jan 2012 (2 years 3 months)
    Online card & board games platform.