Abdullah Erdi Gökce

BKT is an Albanian bank that has operations in Albania and Kosovo. In BKT, I took part in the development of channel logic for Internet banking and mobile. This product was built on Java 11 / Spring Boot 2 and was designed as a modular monolith.

During this project, I’ve had hands-on experience with the YAGNI principle, Oracle, Swagger, etc.

My responsibilities were:

• Completing time-critical issues in time with close collaboration.
• Participating in code reviews. Giving and accepting hard feedback easily for reviews of my developments.
• Mentoring juniors and helping newcomers with their onboarding process.
• Delivery aimed work with strong communication.
• Immediately reporting incidents I have detected my peers and my lead.
• Taking supportive initiatives during outages.

I have joined back to OBSS as a full-stack developer in the Witwiser project which consists of two products:

• Online assessment
• Remote proctoring

In Witwiser, I have developed the frontend & backend of the assessment and proctoring system.

I have had hands-on experience in this project as follows:

• Java 8 and Spring Boot 2
• GraphQL, Rest as API spec.
• ReactJS for frontend.
• Chrome Plugin (for running machine learning models, manages communication in the entire browser and Witwiser backend)
• Socket IO event streaming (Handle session events like video and audio streams)
• NodeJS as a backend system in order to handle integrations between AWS and Socket clients.
• Queuing streaming events for persistency in Kafka.
• Implementing unit tests for core features with JUnit 5 and Mockito.

I was responsible with:

• Accepting and following issues in every step until it goes to production.
• Inquiring about business requests and sharing feedback about them.
• Participating to code reviews with enforcing correct usage of design patterns and SOLID principles.
• Tracking, evaluating, and giving responses to the application logs/events 
through Sentry/AWS Cloudwatch.
• Taking action if there is an error in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines.
• Whole development processes are tracked over JIRA (Mails are used only for notifications).
So keeping my tasks updated was important.
• Attending daily, grooming and retrospective meetings.
• I was directly reporting to CTO.

Participated in Tosla project as a Kotlin backend developer. It was my first hybrid/microservice experience.

I’ve had hands-on experience with:

• Openshift
• Kotlin for server-side
• TFS
• Flyway
• MSSQL
• Kafka (to handle asynchronous and bulk processes)

I was responsible with:

• Delivering tasks on time.
• Mentoring juniors and interns.
• Keeping track of KPIs and burndown charts of the sprint and reporting them as a scrum master.

I have worked as a consultant for Opentext's enterprise content management solution -called Documentum- to MAPFRE, Halkbank and Deutsche Bank.

I have worked on unstructured data management, data analysis, business process management. I worked with customer directly and analysed customer requirements, developed and delivered on time with high customer satisfaction. Also I have worked as customer support and troubleshoot issues, found root causes, fixed permanently.

I have worked on many different IT infrastructure such as:

• MSSQL & Oracle
• Linux Servers (RHEL) & Windows Servers
• Virtual machines
• Networking, Load balancers and Firewalls
• Java 6-8 with vendor specific libraries.

First professional full-time experience in software development. I have worked as a software developer in Yapıkredi Bank on behalf of OBSS.

I have attended the development of commercial credits and individual credits limit allocation logic.

I have personally experienced the followings:

• Investigation for Java 6 -> Java 8 upgrade.
• Maintaining a module in core banking, backbone Spring MVC with Hibernate.
• Conversion of legacy PLSQL packages to Java packages.
• SOAP service integration of external services from outside of the bank.
• Responding to production incidents in SLAs.