Baris Simsek
Principal Software Engineer at Legion Technologies
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBaris S is a Principal Software Engineer based in Mountain View who blends deep systems engineering and SRE leadership with product and business acumen, underpinned by an MS in Business. He led SRE efforts at TikTok building tooling for Search and Branding Ads and has broad experience across cloud-native stacks—Kubernetes, gRPC, service mesh, and distributed systems that support ML-driven bidding and recommendation systems. An entrepreneur who co-founded Surgate (acquired by Comodo) and ran Endersys, he moves comfortably between hands-on infrastructure, DevOps, and product roadmaps. Now at Legion Technologies after roles at Luminary Cloud and Workday, he focuses on making SREs’ lives easier while driving reliability at scale. Colleagues value his uncommon combo of deep Linux/telecom roots and monetization/ML systems experience.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi
English, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
continuous-deployment10
continuous-testing10
continuous-integration10
groovy10
continuous-delivery10
cicd10
java10
jenkins10
devops10
automation9
kubelet6
jupyter-notebook6
certificate6
amazon-s36
python6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
barissimsek/gopython
Feb 2016 - Oct 2020
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
barissimsek/docs
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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