Hey 🌻

I am a senior software engineer and curious human being with many hats 🎩

As a software engineer,

• I’ve been working with Python/Django for last 10+ years. My main focus is backend technologies and I'm passionate about automation and developer experience.
• I can design and implement
  • Scalable and performant ReST/GraphQL APIs
  • CI/CD workflows for linting, functional testing and deployment automations
  • Monitoring systems
  • Development flows that aims to minimize cognitive load and onboarding cost
• I’ve worked with
  • early-stage startups to design and create their initial products, bootstrap their teams and moved them to their first funding round
  • mid-late stage projects to improve their infrastructure, API performance, overall reliability of services, developer tools and documents, add new features and redesign their legacy systems
• I’ve created/supported multiple open source projects in the way,

As a creative technologist, or simply put, someone who enjoys playing with all kinds of technology,

• I am experimenting with different creative coding/art tools, but currently the most of my focus is on TouchDesigner.
  • I am brainstorming/experimenting around the development workflows in TouchDesigner projects and how to use existing Python-native development tooling to improve TouchDesigner developer experience.
• I am interested in projects that has a unique approach to story telling and invoking emotions
• I like the creative use of light and shadow.
• And almost anything else that overlaps with new media arts.

As an open source contributor/maintainer/organizer,

• I value healthy communication/contribution platforms and non-performative inclusion above all else.
• I am an active member of following organizations:
  • Django Software Foundation, individual member since December 2024. I’m also a member of Website Working Group and the Tech Co-lead for official website redesign.
• I am also a member of Github’s maintainer community.
• I am an active organizer in Python Istanbul user group.

Here are the projects I maintain / co-maintain:

• ruffen-docs: Run ruff on Python code blocks in documentation files
• uv-lock-check
• django-click: Write Django management command using the click CLI library
• drf-haystack: Haystack for Django REST Framework
• strawberry-django-auth: Authentication system for django using strawberry
• django-blasphemy: Opinionated Django project template/playground
• renovate-presets: Renovate configuration preset for modern Python projects
• graphene-django: Build powerful, efficient, and flexible GraphQL APIs with seamless Django integration. (retired)
• python-anything (In progress)
• itspython: It's Python, not something else.
• pythoncompatability.com (In progress)
• djangocompatability.com (In progress)

and here is a partial list of project I contributed to:

1. django/djangoproject.com
2. django-commons/django-prometheus
3. dependabot/dependabot-core
4. django-waffle/django-waffle
5. Mitchina/django_birthday_map
6. jazzband/django-redis
7. django/birthday20
8. openwisp/django-rest-framework-gis
9. django-extensions/django-extensions
10. click-contrib/click-option-group
11. dpranke/pyjson5
12. django-commons/django-simple-history
13. encode/django-rest-framework
14. xtrinch/fcm-django
15. PedroBern/django-graphql-auth
16. django-commons/django-valkey
17. django-commons/django-debug-toolbar
18. jazzband/django-hosts
19. llybin/drf-recaptcha
20. graphql-python/graphene
21. pallets-eco/flask-admin
22. tfoxy/graphene-django-optimizer
23. strawberry-graphql/strawberry
24. typesense/typesense-python
25. meilisearch/awesome-meilisearch

The full list can be found here.