Yavuz Melih Özgüven

Bio

I'm a senior software engineer shipping scalable, reliable software across e-commerce, retail, and on-demand delivery. AI-driven development is core to how I work — pairing with models to design, build, and ship features end-to-end, translating product needs into systems across frontend, backend, and whatever stack the work needs. I care about the engineering decisions that age well — maintainable systems, sensible architectures, and code that doesn't get in the way of the next feature or the next person reading it.

Vitæ

• Istanbul, Turkey

  Jan'26 - Now
  

  Senior Software Engineer - Insider

  Promoted to Senior in early 2026, continuing on the search and discovery stack with broader ownership across the team.

• Istanbul, Turkey

  Sep'22 - Dec'25
  

  Software Engineer - Insider

  Worked on the search experience for large-scale e-commerce platforms — building Vue.js components on the frontend for product discovery, and contributing to backend work on the team's Spring Boot + Elasticsearch search service, a Go-based suggestion module, and AWS event-driven services (Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB). Collaborated across cross-functional teams to make search both faster and smarter for end users.

• Kocaeli, Turkey

  Sep'22 - 2024
  

  MSc, Information Systems Engineering - Kocaeli University

  Coursework focused on big data, machine learning, probability, and advanced software engineering.

• Istanbul, Turkey

  May'22 - Jun'22
  

  Software Engineer - Getir

  Ran ad-hoc analyses against the supply chain dataset using AWS Redshift, Athena, and Python — surfacing the numbers product teams needed to move quickly.

• Istanbul, Turkey

  Aug'21 - May'22
  

  Software Engineer - LC Waikiki

  Built backend services for the Product Lifecycle Management platform with .NET Core, Kafka, and MSSQL. Worked across cross-functional teams to design scalable services and shipped performance improvements that sped up data processing and reduced downtime.

• Istanbul, Turkey

  Jun'21 - Jul'21
  

  Mobile Application Developer Intern - Intertech

  Joined a team building the company's super app — contributed to the mobile application using Spring Boot on the backend and React on the frontend, picking up production engineering practices along the way.

• Kocaeli, Turkey

  Jul'20 - Sep'20
  

  Machine Learning Intern - Kocaeli University Smart Systems Lab.

  My first hands-on encounter with TensorFlow. Worked on machine learning and deep learning studies — including a mobile style transfer app in TensorFlow + Java that later became one of my favorite side projects.

• Kocaeli, Turkey

  Apr'19 - Dec'19
  

  Software Developer - Ozka Tyre

  Built the company's intranet site and an internal network monitoring system with .NET and MSSQL — improving operational visibility and giving stakeholders a clearer window into what the systems were doing.

• Kocaeli, Turkey

  Sep'16 - 2021
  

  B.Sc. Computer Science - Kocaeli University

  Bachelor's in Computer Science — where I picked up the data structures, algorithms, and systems fundamentals that I still reach for, often catching myself by surprise.

Publications

• Distributed messaging and light streaming system for combating pandemics

  A case study on spatial analysis of COVID-19 Geo-tagged Twitter dataset

  Özgüven Y. M. , Eken S.

• A Dockerized Big Data Architecture for Sports Analytics

  A Dockerized Big Data Architecture for Sports Analytics

  Özgüven Y. M. , Gönener U. , Eken S.

Other Projects

• clauder · 2026

  A lightweight cross-platform desktop app for browsing your Claude Code session history. Built with Tauri (Rust) and React, it reads the local .jsonl session logs from ~/.claude/projects/ and renders them in a clean, searchable interface — markdown, syntax-highlighted code, collapsible thinking blocks, inline diffs, multi-tab projects, themes, and keyboard shortcuts. Fully local: no API keys, no data leaves the machine.

  Tags: #desktop-app #tauri #rust #react #claude-code #developer-tools

• Artify · 2021

  Android app that applies neural style transfer to photos on-device using TensorFlow models.

  Tags: #deep-learning #computer-vision #style-transfer #tensorflow #android

• Real-time Network Intrusion Detection · 2021

  Graduation project. Trained a machine learning model on the KDD CUP 99 dataset with Apache Spark, then served it through Apache Spark Streaming to classify network traffic and flag attacks in real time across a distributed cluster.

  Tags: #machine-learning #kddcup99 #apache-spark #spark-streaming #scala

• Pac-Man Jr. · 2019

  A Star Wars themed maze game where the player navigates a grid-based map while enemies hunt them down — enemy movement is driven by a breadth-first search shortest-path algorithm.

  Tags: #java #algorithms #breadth-first-search #pathfinding #game

• Remote Method Invocation Color Quantization · 2020

  Distributed image color quantization using Java RMI to run Octree and Median Cut algorithms across remote nodes — a hands-on take on classic color reduction with distributed-systems plumbing.

  Tags: #java-rmi #distributed-systems #octree #median-cut #color-quantization

• Book Recommendations System · 2018

  User-based collaborative filtering recommender written in Java, using cosine similarity to suggest books based on the reading patterns of similar users.

  Tags: #java #recommender-systems #collaborative-filtering #cosine-similarity