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curriculum vitae

Tarkan Cengiz

Full-stack & systems engineer · İzmir, TR

summary

Full-stack engineer with nearly 15 years of experience (coding since high school) who ships end-to-end products solo — from PostgreSQL schema and Django/DRF or NestJS backends to Next.js + React 19 frontends, native mobile, and Kubernetes deployment. Recurring strengths: on-prem AI pipelines, distributed media/CDN, multi-currency ERP, and production-grade infrastructure.

core stack  Python 3.13 · Django 5 / DRF · NestJS · Go · Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · PostgreSQL 18 · Redis · Celery · RabbitMQ · Elasticsearch · SeaweedFS · Docker · Kubernetes (k3s) · ChromaDB · pgvector · Neo4j · Ollama · eBPF · OpenTelemetry

experience

Independent Full-Stack Developer — Self-employed

Nov 2024 – Present

Solo: design, build, and run production web/mobile products end-to-end on a self-hosted k3s cloud; own products and freelance client systems across EdTech, e-commerce, ERP, gaming media, and automotive valuation.

Octoxlabs — Backend Developer

Apr 2024 – Nov 2024

Backend systems for company products (Django, Node.js); managed and optimized cloud infrastructure.

MILvus Robotics (Contract) — Backend Developer

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

PLC manager controlling autonomous robots for a Japanese automotive company (NestJS).

BARTY (Contract) — Full-Stack Developer

Jan 2023 – May 2023

Built the Solarteklif project (Go backend, Nuxt.js frontend).

Blok-Z — Backend Developer

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

Blockchain-based energy generation/consumption certification system (Django).

Vortexlab — Team Lead

Oct 2021 – Apr 2022

Ethereum smart contracts and Avalanche Subnet projects; led NFT and metaverse teams.

Yenidigital — Team Lead

Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

Confidential projects for a French holding; designed a Garanti BBVA payment service.

Gowit (Contract) — Backend Developer

Sep 2021 – Jan 2022

DSP server and analytics services on Apache Druid.

Ruut (Contract) — Frontend Developer

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021

Admin panel managing 12 JSON-RPC services (React, Express.js).

Oda Studio (Contract) — Full-Stack Developer

Sep 2021 – Nov 2021

Full-stack image-processing AI product (Nuxt.js, Django).

Efectura (Contract) — Test Team Lead

Aug 2021 – Sep 2021

Automated testing for a Coca-Cola supply platform (Robot Framework).

Freelance — Smart Contract Developer

May 2021 – Jun 2021

Ethereum NFT smart contracts (Solidity, Hardhat).

Akınon — Full-Stack Developer

Apr 2021 – Aug 2021

Omnitron multichannel sales platform (Django, React).

PRODAFT — Intelligence Developer

Oct 2020 – Mar 2021

Big-data analysis and real-time monitoring targeting malicious actors.

Invictus Cyber Security & Intelligence — Intelligence Developer

Mar 2020 – Oct 2020

Big-data and real-time monitoring systems.

KamPusle — Web Developer

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020

Student-community website and CMS (Laravel, React).

Kadimvadi Entertainment — Web Developer

Jun 2016 – 2018

Gaming-news website and CMS (Next.js, Laravel).

projects
co-founder · ai agent security

Interposed

Runtime security & observability for autonomous AI agents — bridging LLM intent with kernel-level eBPF activity to catch prompt injection, privilege escalation, and exfiltration.

eBPF · OpenTelemetry · Go · Python · Kubernetes · MCP
independent product · vehicle valuation

Aracını Bil

Used-car valuation on its own live-scraped data, with a transparent engine whose coefficients are A/B-tested against the real comparable pool before shipping.

Django · Elasticsearch · RabbitMQ · Next.js · FastAPI · K8s
independent product · gaming media

Kadim Vadi

Gaming editorial platform with an MCP-based AI agent that drafts only from retrieved sources, a custom Tiptap editor, and a canvas Instagram designer.

Django · FastMCP · Ollama · Next.js · SeaweedFS · Telegram
@ 90 pixel · internal platform

AI-Assisted Debugging Pipeline

Turns production errors into AI root-cause diagnoses via tree-sitter indexing, pgvector + Neo4j, and a local code-LLM that returns the failing function and a patch.

Python · Ollama · pgvector · Neo4j · tree-sitter · Loki
@ 90 pixel · go gateway

Central Log Agency

Resilient Go log gateway with hybrid RAM->disk backpressure and replay-on-outage, sustained at 200 RPS across two Loki clusters.

Go · gRPC · Loki · OpenTelemetry · Prometheus
@ 90 pixel · deployed at turkish airlines

Centrio LXP

Enterprise learning platform unifying corporate training systems behind SSO and a content layer — deployed into Turkish Airlines' infrastructure.

Django · Next.js · SAML / OAuth2 · Enterprise IAM · K8s
independent product · with an academic

Tarihlet

Gamified KPSS exam-prep with native iOS/Android from one Next.js codebase and on-prem AI question generation.

Next.js · Capacitor · Django · ChromaDB · Ollama · SeaweedFS
client / product

Lamacase

Design-your-own phone-case commerce with a print-accurate mockup engine and immutable design snapshots.

Django · Next.js · Canvas 2D + SVG · SeaweedFS · K8s
lead full-stack engineer

Isbul.net

Nationwide HR marketplace across web and React Native mobile, with large-scale Elasticsearch search — sole engineer, end-to-end.

Django · Elasticsearch · RabbitMQ · Next.js · React Native · K8s
professional · [employer — to fill in]

Derad Network

Decentralized ADS-B flight-tracking network: ground stations, real-time processing, and a blockchain incentive layer.

Python · TS · Next.js · Django · WebSockets · SDR · blockchain
client · manufacturing

Dayı ERP

Manufacturing ERP for an upcycling workshop: BOM with waste modeling, multi-stage production, and multi-currency accounting.

Django · PostgreSQL 18 · Celery · Next.js · K8s
client · retail

Parfüm Store ERP

Retail POS + inventory + analytics ERP for a corporate perfume dealer network, with barcode POS and real-time dashboards.

Django · PostgreSQL 18 · Celery · Next.js · Quagga2 · K8s
@ 90 pixel

Engineering Infrastructure

Internal backbone: cookiecutter factories, a production NestJS starter, a published npm logger, and an OpenTelemetry->Uptrace->Grafana observability standard.

NestJS · TypeScript · Turborepo · Elasticsearch · BullMQ · Loki
skills
backend
Django 5 / DRF (expert), NestJS, FastAPI, Go
frontend
Next.js 16 / React 19 / TypeScript, Tailwind, Radix UI, Redux Toolkit, TanStack Query
mobile
Capacitor (iOS / Android), React Native
data & search
PostgreSQL 18, pgvector, Elasticsearch 8, Redis, Neo4j
async & messaging
Celery, RabbitMQ, BullMQ, gRPC, WebSockets
ai / ml
Ollama (local LLMs), ChromaDB, Sentence-Transformers, RAG, MCP, tree-sitter
infra & devops
Docker (multi-stage), Kubernetes (k3s), Traefik, self-hosted registry, SeaweedFS, Longhorn, CI/CD
observability
OpenTelemetry, Grafana / Loki, Prometheus, Uptrace
systems & security
eBPF / Linux kernel instrumentation, JWT / RBAC / IAM, SSO (SAML / OAuth2)
web3
Solidity, Hardhat, Web3.js, Ethereum / Avalanche (intermediate)
education
Pamukkale University
B.Sc. Computer Engineering
languages
Turkish (Native) · English (Proficient)