Senior Software Engineer focused on Java with 15+ years building enterprise-scale systems; from Turkey's Ministry of Finance to BMW's global customer portal (600K+ users) and OTTO's B2B e-commerce platform. Now based in Vancouver, BC.

public class Sibel implements Engineer, LifelongLearner {
    String[] stack = {"Java 8-21", "Spring Boot", "Kafka", "AWS", "Kubernetes", "PostgreSQL"};
    String currentFocus = "Senior Java roles + Technical Project Management";
    boolean alwaysLearning = true;
}

Java 8-21 · Spring Boot · Kafka · AWS · Kubernetes · Docker · PostgreSQL · JPA/Hibernate · CI/CD

• BMW Customer Portal — core platform serving 600K+ global users
• OTTO B2B Platform — high-throughput e-commerce microservices
• Government IT Program — coordinated 30+ concurrent projects at Turkey's Ministry of Finance

• Deepening system design, concurrency, and transactional patterns in Spring Boot
• Attending BackendGuru's Agentic Software Design and Architecture Bootcamp (2026) — exploring how agentic systems change the way we design backend architecture
• Working toward PMP certification (PMI Apprenticeship Program 2026) — because I like understanding why projects succeed or fail, not just how the code runs
• Teaching AP Computer Science A (Java) to the next generation of developers

• 🗣️ Certified NLP Practitioner — fascinated by how people (and now, how models) process language
• 🌍 Learning German and French — collecting syntax errors in human languages the same way I used to collect them in Java 😄
• 💃 Certified Zumba instructor — turns out debugging and choreography both reward patience and rhythm

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"Clean code and clean footwork — both take practice."