Taylan Derinbay is a seasoned engineering leader with 10 years of experience driving reliability and performance across web platforms in high-scale e-commerce at Trendyol. He currently leads the Engineering Lead – Member team, ensuring the scalability, availability, and security of loyalty and delivery services that serve millions of users, while also championing DevOps-infused agile testing practices. Formerly, he spearheaded Kafka-related platform work to simplify developer experience for 200+ teams and led the test platform effort, including delivering ARES, a high-scale load tester, and a custom test case management tool. He has a strong track record of building and integrating test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress) into CI/CD pipelines and mentoring junior engineers. In addition to his industry work, he contributes academically as a lecturer at Bahcesehir University, reflecting a commitment to teaching and elevating engineering standards. Based in Istanbul, he combines hands-on coding with leadership in both front-end and back-end development, CI/CD, and performance testing to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Şehremini Anadolu Lisesi
Faculty of Engineering, Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Chemistry at İstanbul Üniversitesi
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