Zahid Çakıcı

Sr. Backend Engineer @Getir

Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

About

Experienced Backend Developer with strong expertise in Node.js, Go, and .NET Core. Skilled in designing and maintaining microservice architectures, and passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems. I have hands-on experience with RabbitMQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Bitbucket Pipelines. I’m also familiar with Azure and AWS cloud environments, and comfortable working across the full stack when needed. A quick learner who enjoys exploring new technologies and improving system reliability, performance, and developer workflows.

Experience

  • Getir (Full-time · 2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Software Developer
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      - Maintained and optimized over 40 microservices (Nodejs and Go) in production. - Played a key role in the Courier Gamification project. - Led OpenTelemetry integrations across microservices and contributed to company-wide observability documentation. - Drove the Grafana migration, implemented the new alerting mechanism, and created an organization-wide OpenTelemetry APM dashboard. - Collaborated with the algorithm team on the Python-to-C++ migration project, implementing OpenTelemetry integration for the new service. - Integrated GitHub CI workflows to enhance deployment automation. - Led multi-topic operations with Apache Flink, provided internal support to other teams, and presented the solution at Confluent Data in Motion Tour 2024. - Optimized Kubernetes resource usage and scaling mechanisms, reducing pod counts and achieving infrastructure savings.

    • Software Developer
      Feb 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • tonguçWORKS (1 yr 5 mos)
    • Software Developer
      Jul 2023 - Feb 2024 · 8 mos

      - Develeped various .NET applications both legacy and modern versions. - Managed Windows servers running on AWS EC2 and took their responsibility on my own initiative - Managed CI/CD pipelines both Jenkins and Bitbucket pipelines. Also run self-hosted Bitbucket Runnner on Windows for legacy .NET projects

    • Software Developer
      Oct 2022 - Jul 2023 · 10 mos

  • Co-Founder at Clobasoft
    Oct 2021 - Aug 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

    - Managed microservices (.NET) and facilitated asynchronous inter-service communication via RabbitMQ. - Experienced Event Sourcing, Onion Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, DDD, TDD, and SOLID principles to ensure robust, maintainable, and scalable solutions. - Implemented Multitenancy for isolation between firms. - Deployed a master-slave related cluster via Kubernetes, ensuring services scalability based on load. - Experienced further, Github Actions and Github Registry, streamlined processes, including creating Docker and Helm chart registries and automating deployment procedures.

  • Software Developer Intern at HI-SIM Technology
    Jul 2022 - Aug 2022 · 2 mos

  • Back-end Developer at Jaliri
    Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos