Cenk Alti

Contact: cenk@alti.email

Summary

I am a software engineer with 10+ years experience in web application development and deployment. I like solving hard problems to make apps more performant, reliable and secure while focusing on simplicity, testing and standards based design.

Technical Skills

• Go, Python, C
• MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Etcd
• NGINX, uWSGI, Flask
• Nagios, Jenkins, Salt, Docker, ffmpeg

Professional Experience

Atolio: Senior Backend Engineer, Toronto, 01/2024-...

Enterprise internal search platform

• Developing and maintaining the connector SDK for Atolio's search product.
• Managing internal and external connector development.

AWS: Software Development Engineer, Toronto, 09/2021-06/2023

• In EKS team, I improved availability and performance of etcd clusters.
• In RDS team, I worked on a project to scale Aurora MySQL to 1000s of nodes.

Amazon: Software Development Engineer, Toronto, 12/2020-09/2021

• In Customer Service Tech team, I worked on scheduling tools for customer service agents.

Put.io: Software Engineer, Istanbul, 12/2015-10/2020

Cloud storage service

• Designed and developed a BitTorrent client: Rain
• Wrote a payment gateway for accepting NANO: Accept Nano
• Replaced MogileFS with in-house developed filesystem: Efes
• Migrated codebase from Python 2 to 3
• Helped containerization of the application and migration to ECS

Koding.com: Software Engineer, Remote, 10/2013-04/2014

Cloud based development environment

• Worked on distributed micro-service framework in Go: Kite

Put.io: Software Engineer, Istanbul, 03/2011-10/2013

Cloud storage service

• Implemented a task queue in Python: Kuyruk
• Implemented continuous integration/deployment
• Lead the migration of PHP codebase to Python
• Wrote the new version of the public API
• Managed storage and download servers

Education

Information Systems Engineering B.Sc., 2005-2010

Dual diploma program

• SUNY Binghamton University (Binghamton, NY)
• Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey)