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Cengiz Can
I have been building software since 2008, across distributed systems, real-time communication platforms, applied machine learning, and two turns running engineering as CTO.
These days I am a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft in Prague, building the distributed storage systems behind the communications platform that powers Teams, feeds into Copilot, and reaches across Microsoft 365. Resiliency, concurrency and geo-distribution stop being concepts there and become the actual, everyday work, under real, high load.
Before that: a year at Hop Scooter on ride, mapping and payment APIs, then five years at innoCentrum, pulling a monolith apart into something cloud-native and building a workflow engine flexible enough to survive contact with real processes. Somewhere in between, an eighteen-month contract took me into an unlikely place: an FDA-approved surgical planning application, building the mathematical engine behind bone-deformity corrections and the 3D simulation on top of it. Still the most unusual thing I have shipped.
Further back: a CTO role, a BI consulting contract, and a software architect position, each one a step on the way back to where the story actually starts. That start was Perculus, a web-based virtual classroom I helped build at Advancity and later led as CTO at SELP, still one of the projects I am fondest of. Alongside it came sordu.com, a peer-to-peer tutoring platform that got noticed at Microsoft BizSpark in Paris back in 2010.
Across all of that I have mostly worked in Go, Java and Rust, with C# and TypeScript when the job calls for it, and I have spent enough time in Azure, GCP and AWS to have opinions about all three.
Outside of code, my curiosity runs toward art, design, history and math, and photography is the one that turned into an actual habit. A few galleries are here.
Where
- Senior Software EngineerMicrosoftNov 2023 —
- Lead Software EngineerHop ScooterAug 2022 — Oct 2023
- Lead Software Engineer & ConsultantinnoCentrumFeb 2017 — Jul 2022
- Lead Software Engineer (Contract)TasarimmedJan 2019 — Jul 2020
- CTOVerisanJan 2016 — Feb 2017
- BI Consultant (Contract)Türk TelekomApr 2014 — Jan 2016
- Software ArchitectSupercomMar 2012 — Apr 2014
- CTOSELPFeb 2010 — Mar 2012later merged into Advancity
- Senior Software DeveloperAdvancityMar 2008 — Feb 2010now part of Constructor Tech
