Dipl.-Ing. Ümit Murat Canpolat

• Built a fullstack React / FastAPI / MongoDB platform giving non-technical staff self-service control over deployments, rollbacks, health checks, and GitHub secrets. • Configured GitHub Actions with E2E testing and Blue-Green deployments, cutting deployment failures by 22%. • Set up eval pipelines with LLM-as-a-judge to monitor product quality, reducing production regressions by 28%. • Built and shared reusable agent skills enforcing company coding standards in agentic workflows.

Retained by the founders to build the backend of an early-stage AI-powered restaurant discovery and conversational ordering platform • Built a Redis caching layer that reduced database queries by 23% • Integrated Celery for asynchronous background task processing, offloading heavy work from request cycles • Optimized PostgreSQL indexing strategies, reducing data retrieval latency by 27% • Built & deployed a chatbot using Django, WebSockets, Redis, and PostgreSQL, serving 500 concurrent WebSocket connections

- Revamped TM Forum-compliant telecom database architecture, improving query performance by 20% - Designed dynamic SQL filters to replace problematic static queries, enhancing system flexibility - Developed new system functionalities based on technical requirements documentation - Automated validation scripts to enforce cross-system data integrity and reduce manual errors

Enables brands to run quest-based reward programs with points and NFTs across multiple marketplaces and domains. Winner of the Dutch Blockchain Award 2022. • Built a GCP microservice to handle high-volume file operations across the platform. • Migrated media hosting infrastructure to Google Cloud Storage from Cloudinary. • Implemented Stripe subscription with automated webhook for real-time payment processing.

• Enhanced the python-exiv2 open-source library with image-processing for metadata extraction. • Provided technical feedback that led to memory-efficient processing adopted in the library’s core. • Built Amazon S3-powered microservices, increasing video and image throughput by 45%. • Migrated a Flask monolith to Django REST Framework, improving maintainability.

- Migrated PHP/MySQL legacy application to Django/PostgreSQL with zero downtime and no data loss - Improved application performance by approximately 40% through query optimization and Redis caching - Implemented CI/CD pipelines and automated nightly encrypted database backups - Configured Linux servers with Nginx and Gunicorn for production deployment

• Optimized Python data pipelines and AWS Lambda functions for a cybersecurity SaaS platform, cutting Lambda execution time by 18%.

- Integrated Business-to-Business (B2B) and e-commerce systems via RESTful APIs for Tictocsoft clients - Customized Django Admin interface for the GOLDLAND platform, improving administrative workflows and efficiency - Improved third-party API reliability by 25% through implementation of robust error handling and retry mechanisms

• Led migration from Python 2.7 / Django 1.x to Python 3.x / Django 2.x, cutting long-term maintenance overhead. • Built an automated inventory and invoicing system, cutting manual workload by 38%. • Developed a comprehensive reservation system for Ilica Hotel handling 100+ daily bookings, with custom admin dashboards. • Mentored junior developers and documented best practices to speed team onboarding

- Developed a comprehensive reservation system for Ilica Hotel, handling 100+ daily bookings - Built custom admin dashboards that increased operational efficiency by 40% - Consistently delivered projects on time and within performance targets