software engineer. graduated from bilkent computer engineering. third-degree black belt taekwondo fighter.
these are what i have used so far — flutter for mobile, react for the web, node and spring boot on the backend, postgres, redis, and mongo when there's a database involved, docker, k8s, and aws when you need to actually deploy it. hobby code in rust and c too, when the problem asked for it.
the list will keep changing. you learn whatever the job needs and use it — no reason to be a fan of any particular stack. as an engineer i am paid to solve problems, not to do missionary work for whatever technology a company is trying to sell.
not built for the sake of building something. each one started because i ran into a real problem — something broken, blocked, or missing — and nothing already out there did the job.
break your api before your users do. a small rust cli that hits endpoints with concurrent traffic — fixed load, ramps, spikes, find-the-limit — and prints latency percentiles, throughput, and error rates. useful from a terminal or a ci job.
a socks5 proxy that splits tls clienthellos so deep packet inspection cannot read the sni, plus clean dns against poisoned resolvers. written in c for raspberry pi os after discord went dark in turkey and the windows-only tools would not run on the pi sitting on my desk.
a few lines i keep coming back to. not mine.
there are no hopeless situations, there are hopeless people. i never lost my hope.
pain is inevitable. suffering is optional.
talk is cheap. show me the code.
black belt is just a white belt who refused to give up.
simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
i fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but i fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
a winner has lost more than a loser ever will.
premature optimization is the root of all evil.
the impediment to action advances action. what stands in the way becomes the way.
profanity is the one language all programmers know best.