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thanks for walking with me
Yavuz Melih Özgüven · drawn with care · 2026
about me
I live here,
I build there.
I'm a senior software engineer shipping scalable, reliable systems 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 across frontend, backend, and whatever stack the work needs.
~ the path so far ~
Where I've walked.
Jan'26 - Now
Senior Software Engineer
Insider · Istanbul, Turkey
Promoted to Senior in early 2026, continuing on the search and discovery stack with broader ownership across the team.
Sep'22 - Dec'25
Software Engineer
Insider · Istanbul, Turkey
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.
Sep'22 - 2024
MSc, Information Systems Engineering
Kocaeli University · Kocaeli, Turkey
Coursework focused on big data, machine learning, probability, and advanced software engineering.
May'22 - Jun'22
Software Engineer
Getir · Istanbul, Turkey
Ran ad-hoc analyses against the supply chain dataset using AWS Redshift, Athena, and Python — surfacing the numbers product teams needed to move quickly.
Aug'21 - May'22
Software Engineer
LC Waikiki · Istanbul, Turkey
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.
Jun'21 - Jul'21
Mobile Application Developer Intern
Intertech · Istanbul, Turkey
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.
Jul'20 - Sep'20
Machine Learning Intern
Kocaeli University Smart Systems Lab. · Kocaeli, Turkey
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.
Apr'19 - Dec'19
Software Developer
Ozka Tyre · Kocaeli, Turkey
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.
Sep'16 - 2021
B.Sc. Computer Science
Kocaeli University · Kocaeli, Turkey
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.
~ the garden ~
Things I've grown.
'26
clauder
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.
'21
Artify
Android app that applies neural style transfer to photos on-device using TensorFlow models.
'21
Real-time Network Intrusion Detection
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.
'19
Pac-Man Jr.
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.
'20
Remote Method Invocation Color Quantization
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.
'18
Book Recommendations System
User-based collaborative filtering recommender written in Java, using cosine similarity to suggest books based on the reading patterns of similar users.