Isa Mert Gurbuz

github.com/isamert

https://isamert.net

isamert@protonmail.com

+90 538 606 43 74

Experience

Working as a fullstack developer using React.js on the frontend and working with several microservices written in node.js (using NestJS) and Kotlin/Java (using Quarkus/Spring) on the backend. Databases involved are Couchbase, PostgreSQL and Cassandra.

Working on real-time, high-throughput event processing systems using Kafka Streams. Designing and implementing resilient, self-healing, anti-fragile systems from ground-up.

I worked as fullstack developer on a health-care project in a multi-cultural work environment with multiple time-zones.
I mainly worked on node.js microservices that is using AWS technologies, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, Cognito.
I was also contributing to a Haskell monolith backend project and other React.js frontend projects.
Along with these I developed several internal tools, for automating and validating some internal workflows that led to at least ~70% increase in productivity on their specific related task. Mainly used Haskell and TypeScript.

Worked on the development of a CMS project as a backend developer.
- The system is used by maintainers for managing applications published to the AppGallery application market.
- The system was written in Java and consisted several microservices.
- I designed and developed new endpoints, did refactoring and bunch of improvements.
- I was also responsible for building, maintaining and improving the DevOps process.
Worked on adapting Huawei Mobile Services to third party frameworks.
- I led a newly formed team of ~ten Cordova developers and developed Cordova libraries.
- Worked closely with React-Native team and developed cross-framework libraries.
- I also automated lots of internal workflows, mostly using Bash scripts.

Developed an e-commerce website for selling courses using MongoDB, Node.js with Express.js for the backed and React.js with Next.js for the frontend and published using GCP.

Designed and developed a tool for managing/archiving/automating some aviation-related test results using Kotlin and Java. The program also lets users work on those test results collaboratively in a secured environment.

Designed and developed an extensive IDE/GUI designer for D4D library using C++ and Qt toolkit. The IDE has a fully-featured GUI designer that outputs pure C code, basic code editing tools, translation manager and other helpful tools for developing applications for embedded devices.

techne ∷ A functional programming language with Hindley-Milner type system, OOP features and an interesting syntax. Written in Haskell.
marks ∷ A grep-like, fast, contextual search/filtering tool for Markdown and org-mode documents. Written in Rust.
scli ∷ A simple yet highly configurable, keyboard-driven TUI for Signal messenger. Written in Python.
scheme.rs ∷ A Scheme interpreter that implements R5RS with some extensions from R7RS. Written in Rust.
jaro ∷ A highly customizable/extensible xdg-open alternative with a custom DSL. Written in Guile Scheme.
jsdoc.el ∷ An Emacs tool for generating JSDoc texts for functions with minimal type-inference. Written in Emacs Lisp.
orgmdb.el ∷ An OMDb API client and a watchlist manager for Emacs and org-mode. Written in Emacs Lisp.

isamert.net ∷ A static website generator and my website itself. One interesting thing is that the blog is generated from one file and the code that generates the blog and the documentation of the code is inside that one file itself. Written in Emacs Lisp.
empv.el ∷ A very comprehensive Emacs interface for MPV media player and an Emacs Youtube client. Written in Emacs Lisp.
dotfiles ∷ My very detailed system configuration written in style of literate programming.
sozluk ∷ An eksisozluk clone with Reddit-like commenting and category system. Written in PHP.

You can see other projects that I did not mention (they might be inactive or insignificant to be mentioned) here in my GitHub page.

Languages ∷ JavaScript and TypeScript (browswer and node.js/deno), Haskell, Rust, Kotlin, Java, Emacs Lisp, Python, Bash, C++, Guile Scheme, C, PHP, R, Clojure, C#
Frameworks ∷ Javascript {React.js, Express.js, Next.js}, Java/Kotlin {Spring, JavaFX}, C++/Python {Qt}
Tooling ∷ Emacs, Basic UNIX tools {sed, grep, find, vi(m), ssh}, git, Bash/ZSH, Nix, AWS, serverless, GCP
Concepts ∷ functional programming, object-oriented programming, API design, automation, workflow optimization, literate programming

I gave introductory courses on Python at Anadolu University Computer Club on fall 2016.
I gave introductory courses on GNU/Linux at Anadolu University Computer Club on fall 2015.

I'm a huge advocate of free software movement. I try to publish all of my works as free software. I try to contribute FOSS projects. You can see a glimpse of my contributions to other free software projects through my GitHub page.
In my free time I generally read books of philosophy. I really like the works of German idealists. I also do enjoy reading about newer philosophical thoughts like post-modernism/post-structuralism.
I publish short movie/show/album critics/reviews (in Turkish) here, you can also check out my IMDb ratings.
I try to scrobble what I listen here.
Be sure to check out my website to see more content.