Can Burak Çilingir

Conceived to solve the massive problems that English language higher education institutions worldwide are having with application fraud by and lack of information about Chinese and other international applicants, ISVS intends to join ETS and The College Board as a new standard requirement in the international admission process. Utilizing centralized, remote video interviews of all candidates to produce an in-depth capsule summary of each applicant's English language and other skills… Show more

Conceived to solve the massive problems that English language higher education institutions worldwide are having with application fraud by and lack of information about Chinese and other international applicants, ISVS intends to join ETS and The College Board as a new standard requirement in the international admission process. Utilizing centralized, remote video interviews of all candidates to produce an in-depth capsule summary of each applicant's English language and other skills, psychometric traits, and who they are as people, ISVS will provide universities and graduate programs with the exact information they need to make the best international admission decisions possible. With operations launching in Spring 2013, ISVS intends to become the leading source of undergraduate and graduate applicant intelligence worldwide.

Developed a web based live 1-1 video interview system capable of recording and playing back interviews with the related ecosystem of supporting infrastructure services. Show less

Coral Team, consisting of more than 20 members, is responsible of the backend which is processing the search to booking flow. The software is highly available and processing most of the revenue of the Metglobal Group.

We are managing the server infrastructure of metglobal, hosted on AWS, high throughput web services, fluentd, redis, nginx, gunicorn, django, python etc.

Sky Cloud is a project of Sky Atlas which is a VC-backed startup. Found in 2013, has a goal to provide IaaS solutions which support automated vertical scaling of computing resources according to the load of the hosted applications.

I joined the project early on, thus had experience with a multitude of hardware/network virtualization, container, storage technologies. After the development phase, I became responsible for the operations, which consist of running the hardware, network and… Show more

Sky Cloud is a project of Sky Atlas which is a VC-backed startup. Found in 2013, has a goal to provide IaaS solutions which support automated vertical scaling of computing resources according to the load of the hosted applications.

I joined the project early on, thus had experience with a multitude of hardware/network virtualization, container, storage technologies. After the development phase, I became responsible for the operations, which consist of running the hardware, network and our custom orchestration software on this infrastructure. Show less

Brandsfever is a private shopping club, an e-commerce website started in Singapore, later served to most of Asia, including Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and also in Europe.

I was part of the founding team and took significant part in developing the framework. All hosting/monitoring and related system administration was done by me.

Coded in Django, and the infrastructure served on Amazon EC2 using tools like gunicorn, nginx, supervisord, postgresql, puppet, nagios.

Part of the founding team that developed the software and infrastructure for Markafoni, Turkey’s leading private shopping club featuring more than 3.5 million members. Markafoni was valued at $200 million by Naspers.

Apart from the development, I was also the system administrator.

The site was developed with django, served by apache, load-balanced by nginx. database was postgresql. e-mail deliveries were done with a wrapper over postfix, an in-house, tiny version of powermta… Show more

Part of the founding team that developed the software and infrastructure for Markafoni, Turkey’s leading private shopping club featuring more than 3.5 million members. Markafoni was valued at $200 million by Naspers.

Apart from the development, I was also the system administrator.

The site was developed with django, served by apache, load-balanced by nginx. database was postgresql. e-mail deliveries were done with a wrapper over postfix, an in-house, tiny version of powermta. everything was monitored by nagios. All deployment/automation/backup handled by me and I took significant part in the development.

Servers were hosted in our own rack-space, so managed a network with multiple vlans, staff was accessing backoffice via VPN.

Spent some time with email service providers such as Hotmail and Yahoo, convincing that we were sending legitimate emails. Show less