M. Said Çamkerten

• Clarity before speed

  Goals, ownership and trade-offs are written down, so the team can move fast without waiting on me.

• Grow people, not just systems

  Weekly 1:1s, honest feedback and stretch work that is real, not invented. A stronger team is the result I care about most.

• Stay close to the work

  I still review architecture and design decisions, so what we decide is grounded in how the system actually behaves in production.

• Steady through change

  Priorities, plans and teams shift. My job is to keep people focused and commitments realistic when they do.

• Own outcomes, not tickets

  I work with product, design and business stakeholders on the whole customer journey, not only the backend behind it.

• AI where it earns its place

  In the product and in our workflow, judged by what it actually improves, not by the hype.

Expertise

• Engineering leadership

  Building and running engineering teams end to end.

  • People management
  • Hiring and onboarding
  • 1:1s and performance reviews
  • Career development
  • Scrum and Agile delivery
  • Stakeholder and vendor management
  • Conflict resolution

• Distributed systems

  Designing enterprise-scale, event-driven microservice platforms.

  • Java 17+
  • Spring Boot
  • Spring Cloud
  • Spring WebFlux
  • Micronaut
  • Quarkus
  • Go
  • Reactive programming
  • Domain-driven design

• Data and messaging

  Reliable, high-throughput data flows between services.

  • Apache Kafka
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • Oracle

• Cloud and DevOps

  Shipping and operating on cloud-native infrastructure.

  • AWS (EKS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, RDS)
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
  • Docker
  • ArgoCD
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins

  AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

• Banking domain

  Core retail banking products, from first design to production.

  • Deposits and savings
  • Debit and credit cards
  • Personal loans
  • Internet banking
  • 3D Secure
  • QR payments

• AI

  Applying AI in products and in the engineering workflow.

  • LLM-based chatbots and customer assistants
  • AI-assisted development

Credentials

• B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University
• Erasmus exchange, University of Freiburg, Germany
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Languages: Turkish (native), English (professional)

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