Experience
Kartenliebe - Software Engineer
Niche e-commerce site about cards with complex customizations, uniq business needs. Developing backend using PHP, Symfony
Talentry - Software Engineer
Helped building the Candidate Relationship Management platform. Focused on backend implementations with PHP, DDD, Symfony, MariaDB, ElasticSearch, AWS
Insider - Senior Software Developer
Responsible for developing different services and products for Growth Management Platform. PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Vue.js, ElasticSearch, Serverless (Python), AWS. Multi cultural office environment.
Mobifun - PHP Developer
Responsible for developing and deploying backend solutions of several web applications, mobile apps, integrating with mobile payment, affiliate, ad, report services (REST, SOAP), developing 3rd party, value added services for carriers. Using Laravel, LEMP stack, Redis, RabbitMQ, Node.js, MongoDB
Freelance / Home Office Web Developer
Worked home office with 3 other colleague developing corporate web sites, Municipality web sites, move Communal Education Centers, Science and Art centers to online. 10+ School web sites, 100+ web sites, HR portal, Estate Portal, 5 Municipality Portal, Municipality Help desk automation,... PHP, LAMP stack
Education
Yalova Univ. Master's Degree Computer Sciences - abandoned
Courses finished (Machine learning, wireless networks...), abandoned as I started to work full time didn't have time for working on thesis.
Sakarya Univ. Master's Degree Cyber Security - transferred to Yalova
Courses completed: Intro to Cyber security, TCP/IP Security, Penetration Tests and Security Audit, Cyber Wars. Transferred to Yalova after that.
3.23/4 GPA
Yalova Univ. Bachelor Degree Computer Sciences
Computation Club Board Member (20+ Seminars organised, volunteered for lecturing “Intro to web development”)
Graduation project: Auto generating admin panel, a script that provides CRUD interface for a given mysql database just with couple of configurations.
Web Application Security - Linux Summer Camp
2 weeks, full day, hands on web application security camp with OWASP top 10, network, cryptography topics covered.
Camp content can be found sorry dead link
StajOkulu 2012
1.5 month courses, mostly seminars from volunteered professionals in IT sector with wide range of topics. Course program can be found here
ABOUT ME
What Does Murat Yüksel Do?
Before corona I was traveling in almost all holidays. Started with Japan May 2017 and that was really a nice experience. My goal was visiting a different country every year but currently paused. After moving to Munich for my job more focused on closer area.
As I try to avoid even trains currently, trying to increase my reach with bicycle. Time to time planning 50-100km rides to visit lakes, small villages... New goal is making a century (100 miles a day) until the end of summer. Still not fit enough, generally my average speed is too slow to reach this goal (20-22km).
I like photography, especially how it forces me to look around and find beauty while life flows at full speed. Below I am adding a section for this topic. Not too active but here is my Instagram: @fototropi Generally I share 4-5 photos a week.
Besides cycling actually, I like "tasting" hobbies. Tried calligraphy (failed miserably :D), went to creative writing course (but couldn't write a piece yet, still have some ideas though), tried playing piano but at that time of my life had a lot of overtime so couldn't practice enough, now an electric guitar is resting at the corner of the room. No rush, no broken hearts if it wont work. Just enjoying the time.
On the technical side, time to time I do trial and error style mini projects. For example tried Forex with MQL4 programming, machine learning with basic principles using Python. Here for this web site I learned little bit react, next, tailwind etc. Would like to try Go next. Beside these interesting topics abandoned several nontrivial projects, mostly written in PHP.
Photography
In 2015 I decided to buy a camera as I was traveling frequently. My searches end up with a Sony RX100 M3. Actually as it is not seem like a brilliant camera, I am pretty satisfied with the results. Most important thing is it makes me discover my surroundings and search for beauty in everyday life and ordinary things. In 2021 upgraded it to Sony Alpha 6400 and now more excited to take more photos. Generally taking nature, animal photos. You can see some of my favourite shots below. Also you can follow be on Instagram: @fototropi
