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Merih Taze
: merihtaze@hotmail.com | |
Web Page | : www.MerihTaze.com |
: www.linkedin.com/in/merihtaze |
Summary of Qualifications
- Author of Engineers' Survival Guide
- Currently Principle Software Engineering Lead at Facebook
- 4 years of Senior Software Engineering Lead at SnapChat
- 4 years of Software Engineering at Microsoft Corporation
- 9 years of Company Management and Web/Software Development at TazeSoft
- Preference of technically involved management positions or architecting systems to scale
- Back-end development: C++, C#, JAVA, Go Lang, Node.js, SQL, No-SQL, Aerospike
- Front-end development: Angular2, React, REST, JavaScript, Typescript, Bootstrap, JQuery, CSS
- Mobile development: Cross Platform Development with React Native and Flutter
- Team player, Self-driven, Advanced coding and debugging skills
- Expert on making things scale and multi-threaded programming
- Expert on Cloud Engineering(Google Cloud and AWS): Kubernetes, Load balancers, Appengine, Data Store, Big Query, Pub/Sub etc.
- Fluent Interaction and UI designer with Adobe Photoshop and Sketch
- Highest GPA (3.79/4.00) at Cukurova University Computer Engineering
- Fluent English, Fluent Turkish, Beginner Spanish
- Hobbies: Happy hour, Drones, Robots, BBQ, Horse Riding, Soccer, Dancing, Hiking, Flute/Guitar
Experiences
Principle Software Engineering Lead @ Facebook (2020 – Current)
- Currently working for Ads Team
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- Lead engineer on Ads Team
- Worked for Marketplace Team
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- Lead engineer on Marketplace
Senior Software Engineering Lead @ SnapChat (2016 – 2020)
- Worked for Discover Team - Story Posting
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- Lead engineer on story posting and serving to ~230 Million daily active users
- Redesigned story posting to change it from write phan-out to read phan-out
- Worked for Games Team
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- Knowledge of full stack game development
- Worked on PlayCanvas Editor (Game development platform)
- Worked on PlayCanvas Engine (Game engine written purely in Javascript with webGl)
- Worked for Research Team
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- Lead engineer on labeling platform to collect training data for Artificial Intelligence
- Worked on building and training deep learning networks and running them at scale
- Worked for Monetization Team
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- Lead engineer for developing Line of Credit (Banking software that tracks all the payments)
Founder & CEO @ TazeSoft (2019 – Current)
- Leading a team of engineers and designers focusing on mobile app development
- Developing mobile apps in React Native and Flutter
- Developing back end services in Node.js
- References available upon request
Software Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Corp. (2012 - 2016)
- Worked for Office Online Team for 2 years (Browser version of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote)
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- Implemented Co-authoring for Microsoft Office (50+ users editing same document)
- Worked for Bing Team for 2 years (Knowledge of full stack of Microsoft’s Search Engine)
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- Implemented Distributed Durable Data Store with Replication and Atomic Operations
- Content Delivery Network of Microsoft / Azure
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- Load Balancing and Global Resource Management
- DoS (Denial of Service) and Bot Protection
- Caching
- Distributed Durable Data Store with Replication and Atomic Operations
- Distributed Build Systems
- Engineering Agility / Engineering Excellence
- Testing Frameworks, Code Quality / Test Stability
- Flighting/Experimentation Framework
- Shipment (Deploying code to production) Management
- Experience with being on call and dealing with live site issues
- Advanced scripting with PowerShell for Tooling and Automation
Founder & Web Designer/Developer @ TazeSoft (2003 - 2012)
- References available upon request
- E-Commerce / Online Shopping Systems
- Gesture Capturer via Webcam (Image processor to capture hand gestures via web cam)
- Bulk SMS Sender Application for Corporates
- Online multiplayer game development
- Web Login Authentication with Cell Phone Password Generation
- Development of physics and 3D simulation engine for submarines
Hobbies
Happy hour, Helicopters / Drones, Robots, Barbecuing, Horse Riding, Soccer, Foosball, Dancing, Hiking, Flute/Guitar