Emel Şimşek

Principal Software Engineer

Ankara, Türkiye

About

Distributed Systems, Network Protocols, Load Balancing, Backend Development, Linux, Identity and Access Management, CyberSecurity.

Experience

  • Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
    Aug 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Product Manager at Pardus
    Apr 2018 - Oct 2022 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • Chief Researcher at TUBITAK
    Feb 2015 - Oct 2022 · 7 yrs 9 mos

    Promoting FLOSS adaption in government institutions.

  • Project Manager at AnelARGE
    2013 - 2015 · 2 yrs

    Managed software development for a new Next Generation Firewall running on a multi-core networking appliance called Tilera. Main responsibilities were managing a team of developers, determining project deliverables and schedule, determining the feature set. The project involved: Open Source Intrusion Detection and Prevention Tools, specifically Suricata. Deep Packet Inspection (TCP Reassembly, L7 Protocol Parsing, Multicore/Multithreaded Programming in C++, Socket Programming, Interprocess Communication) Complex Event Processing, specifically Siddhi CEP engine. Python Programming Working knowledge of CentOS

  • Software Engineer III at F5 Networks
    Feb 2011 - Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Worked as a Software Developer focusing on Global Traffic Manager product, Load Balancing, Network Protocols (DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, ARP), Socket Programming. I have designed and developed features such as DNS server monitoring agent. I have programmed on Linux platform using C, C++, STL, Perl, SOAP. Used GDB for debugging and core file investigation.