Cem Akan — Backend Engineer

Backend engineer building distributed systems in Go and .NET. Author of pastaay, an open-source chaos engineering engine for Go (HTTP, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, SQL, MongoDB). Back-end intern at Hepsiburada (2025), Junior Back-End Developer at BirTakım Software / VoltGo (2022–2023), founder of the Yazılım Çukurova developer community. Computer Engineering at Çukurova University and BME Budapest (Erasmus); Huayu scholar at NCKU, Taiwan.

Based in Adana, Türkiye; currently in Tainan, Taiwan. Open to remote backend roles, full-time or contract. Usually replies within 24 hours.

Selected work

• pastaay — open-source chaos engineering engine for Go. One YAML file injects faults across HTTP, gRPC, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, SQL and MongoDB; Kubernetes operator, GitHub Action and web console. Repository.
• VoltGo — production OCPP 1.6J backend for EV charging stations across Türkiye, approved by EPDK, with APIs for a driver mobile app and a corporate dashboard.
• Hepsiburada — zero-downtime RabbitMQ cluster migrations across environments; C# / ASP.NET Core microservices; file management with Pure Storage; xUnit + Moq tests and code review.

Experience

• National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) — Huayu Scholar, Mandarin, 2026–now, Tainan, Taiwan.
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) — Computer Engineering, Erasmus, 2025–2026, Budapest, Hungary.
• Hepsiburada — Back-End Intern, Jul–Aug 2025, Istanbul, Türkiye.
• BirTakım Software / VoltGo — Junior Back-End Developer, Dec 2022–Jun 2023, Adana, Türkiye.
• Yazılım Çukurova — Founder and Lead, 2021–now, Adana, Türkiye. 500+ member developer community.
• Çukurova University — Computer Engineering, English programme, 2021–2026, Adana, Türkiye.

Writing

Articles on Go, .NET, distributed systems, observability and chaos engineering on Medium and DEV Community.

Contact

[email protected] · LinkedIn · GitHub · Medium · CV (PDF)