I am a passionate, responsible software development engineer with 14+ years of experience, including 4+ years in leadership roles. I enjoy building scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions and I thrive when leading distributed engineering teams to deliver impactful outcomes. I excel at turning complex requirements into practical software, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders. With hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle, I bring strong problem-solving skills, a focus on code quality, and a constant drive to learn and apply cloud-native and microservices approaches.

MELEK AGCA

I am a passionate, responsible software development engineer with 14+ years of experience, including 4+ years in leadership roles. I enjoy building scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions and I thrive when leading distributed engineering teams to deliver impactful outcomes. I excel at turning complex requirements into practical software, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders. With hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle, I bring strong problem-solving skills, a focus on code quality, and a constant drive to learn and apply cloud-native and microservices approaches.

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I am a passionate, responsible software development engineer with 14+ years of experience, including 4+ years in leadership roles. I enjoy building scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions and I thrive when leading distributed engineering teams to deliver impactful outcomes.

I excel at turning complex requirements into practical software, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, and stakeholders. With hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle, I bring strong problem-solving skills, a focus on code quality, and a constant drive to learn and apply cloud-native and microservices approaches.

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Language

English
Fluent
Turkish
Fluent

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer at Chorus Intelligence
May 1, 2025 - May 1, 2025
Led a distributed team of 6 engineers to design, develop, and maintain a cloud-based investigative software platform for law enforcement. Collaborated with product managers and designers to define roadmaps, prioritize tasks, and ensure timely delivery. Built secure, scalable, and containerized solutions using FastAPI, Docker, and AWS. Oversaw project strategies, facilitated sprint planning, and conducted performance reviews to foster team growth and accountability. Contributed to hands-on coding, pull request reviews, and mentoring team members on best practices. Delivered strategy and roadmap for major features in collaboration with stakeholders. Achievements include a 30% improvement in deployment efficiency and a 40% reduction in latency for data-intensive features.
Software Engineer at The Institute for Environmental Analytics
July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022
Implemented the company’s first commercial web platform for supply chain analytics using environmental data with Agile methodologies. Improved database and ORM performance to support big data processing. Conducted daily code reviews to improve coding quality. Planned workload estimations and sprint activities, and managed releases on Google Cloud VMs while handling storage. Accomplishments include METAR/SYNOP weather station database with daily ingestion reaching 1TB, REST API delivering 20 years of historical weather data under 40 seconds, and an 80% reduction in frontend loading times through performance optimizations.
Team Leader at Ayesas
September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018
Led and managed a small team of developers using Agile methodologies. Gathered software requirements, authored specifications, scoped and planned software projects, and delivered client software demonstrations. Contributed to the development of traffic toll collection systems and trained technical staff. Worked closely with end users to troubleshoot issues and perform impact analysis for redeployment of delicate systems with large user bases. Created and communicated strategy and roadmap for platform modules in collaboration with stakeholders. Achievements include adoption of Agile practices leading to 20% productivity improvement and refactoring/optimization of key modules.
Senior Software Developer at IPA Defence
February 1, 2017 - February 1, 2017
Contributed to the Turkish Sea Level Monitoring System and the Turkey Gravity Field National Data Center for the General Command of Mapping. Involved in the full software lifecycle from quotations and requirements to design, coding, testing, and installation. Performed Scrum Master duties and implemented reporting using .NET, C#, Fast Reports, and Crystal Reports. Managed user groups and product owners, and developed web services.
Software Developer at Ziraat Teknoloji
December 1, 2013 - December 1, 2013
Developed and maintained a smart card project in a Java web application for the Turkish Armed Forces. Participated in banking operations software development for Windows applications using DevExpress.
Software Developer at Petek Yazilim
August 1, 2010 - August 1, 2010
Freelance software development work, including initiating a patient satisfaction survey system and overseeing all stages of the software development lifecycle.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science at Dokuz Eylul University
September 1, 2006 - September 1, 2010
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at Dokuz Eylul University
September 1, 2006 - September 1, 2010
Bachelor's in Computer Science at Dokuz Eylul University
September 1, 2006 - September 1, 2010

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Industry Experience

Government, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Education, Media & Entertainment