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I'm Ismail Atkurt, a lead software engineer based in Berlin with deep expertise in NestJS, Go, AWS, Terraform, and full-stack development. I enjoy building scalable infrastructure and shipping product-ready features end-to-end, while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. Over the years I've steered high-impact projects at startups and scale-ups, designing domain-driven architecture, implementing production-grade cloud infrastructure, and delivering robust backend APIs alongside modern frontend applications.…I'm Ismail Atkurt, a lead software engineer based in Berlin with deep expertise in NestJS, Go, AWS, Terraform, and full-stack development. I enjoy building scalable infrastructure and shipping product-ready features end-to-end, while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. Over the years I've steered high-impact projects at startups and scale-ups, designing domain-driven architecture, implementing production-grade cloud infrastructure, and delivering robust backend APIs alongside modern frontend applications.

Ismail Atkurt

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +4

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I'm Ismail Atkurt, a lead software engineer based in Berlin with deep expertise in NestJS, Go, AWS, Terraform, and full-stack development. I enjoy building scalable infrastructure and shipping product-ready features end-to-end, while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. Over the years I've steered high-impact projects at startups and scale-ups, designing domain-driven architecture, implementing production-grade cloud infrastructure, and delivering robust backend APIs alongside modern frontend applications.…I'm Ismail Atkurt, a lead software engineer based in Berlin with deep expertise in NestJS, Go, AWS, Terraform, and full-stack development. I enjoy building scalable infrastructure and shipping product-ready features end-to-end, while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. Over the years I've steered high-impact projects at startups and scale-ups, designing domain-driven architecture, implementing production-grade cloud infrastructure, and delivering robust backend APIs alongside modern frontend applications.

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I’m Ismail Atkurt, a lead software engineer based in Berlin with deep expertise in NestJS, Go, AWS, Terraform, and full-stack development. I enjoy building scalable infrastructure and shipping product-ready features end-to-end, while leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.

Over the years I’ve steered high-impact projects at startups and scale-ups, designing domain-driven architecture, implementing production-grade cloud infrastructure, and delivering robust backend APIs alongside modern frontend applications.

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Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer at CEEZER

September 1, 2023 - Present

Founded and led the Platform Team, setting vision and strategy across DevOps, backend, frontend, and internal tooling. Architected and implemented a production-grade AWS infrastructure using Terraform and EKS, including Cognito, IAM, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, and more. Designed multi-environment infrastructure across QA, Demo, Staging, and Production with CI/CD workflows, dynamic preview environments, and GitOps integration. Led epic scoping and story definition in collaboration with product managers, establishing a technical roadmap. Mentored team members on architecture reviews, scalability strategies, and cross-functional problem solving. Hands-on contributor across the stack with NestJS, React, NextJS, and Kubernetes. Introduced and led Domain-Driven Design in backend API by reflecting business domains in the codebase.

Founding Engineer at Bounti

September 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

Joined as founding engineer and owned the entire product lifecycle from architecture to deployment across web and mobile platforms. Built foundational services with GoLang, Node.js, React/NextJS, and React Native. Designed microservices architecture with HRIS integrations and Fountain. Deployed infrastructure on AWS (Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, Lambda, Redis, RDS, ECR). Created internal admin and dev portals, SMS delivery service in under 3 months. Established developer tooling and CI/CD pipelines via GitLab, and implemented end-to-end monitoring and observability.

Founding Engineer at MakeHoney

September 1, 2022 - May 31, 2023

Joined as founding engineer and led the technical implementation of the products at MakeHoney. Owned architecture to deployment across web and mobile, built core services in GoLang/Node.js, and designed microservices with HRIS integration and Fountain. Deployed AWS infrastructure and built internal admin and dev portals; established CI/CD and monitoring.

Senior Backend Developer at DoctorLib

October 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022

Delivered full-stack features with Ruby on Rails and ReactJS across a cross-functional agile team. Contributed to patient-doctor interaction workflows and internal tooling.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at PlusDental

June 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021

Worked across Laravel, Symfony, ReactJS on multiple user-facing products. Contributed to architecture and cross-project code reuse strategy.

Senior Full-Stack PHP Web Developer at Digital Performance

September 1, 2016 - May 1, 2020

Led internal tooling using Phalcon PHP, Slim, and ReactJS. Built performance-driven marketing apps with A/B testing and analytics features.

Software Engineer at Freebird Airlines

May 1, 2014 - September 1, 2016

Developed internal airline systems using PHP (Laravel) and MySQL, AngularJS. Delivered full-stack features for operations and crew scheduling.

Senior Backend Developer at Sides (Formerly MakeHoney)

March 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022

GetSides builds and improves a cloud-based software package for gastronomy delivery services. Contributed to backend features and microservices using Go and PHP, supported legacy system modernization and backend reliability efforts.

Full-Stack Developer at Doctolib

October 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022

Delivered full-stack features with Ruby on Rails and ReactJS across cross-functional agile teams. Contributed to patient-doctor interaction workflows and internal tooling.