Selçuk Cihan

Created mobile device management tools to support warehouse ops, reducing manual device setup and improving reliability across Android-based workflows.

Automated warehouse operations such as processing returns, customization of products and workflows, resulting in more efficient use of resources.

Expanded backend observability, giving engineering & operations teams more visibility into failures affecting warehouse.

Created the Python AWS Lambda SDK for Serverless Console, an observability platform for applications running on AWS Lambda.

Owned release coordination & backward compatibility of the SDK, supporting dependable adoption among customers.

Created serverless backends on AWS using Node.js & Python for multiple products, including a machine-learning SAAS application and a substack-like platform for financial writers.

Designed customer-facing GraphQL APIs, serverless execution orchestration, data-ingestion workflows and priority-queue services for mission-critical financial products.

Delivered analytics, article recommendation, summarization, and automated sitemap capabilities for customer-facing products on tellimer.com

Led architecture/design sessions, clarified ambiguous requirements, mentored engineers and reviewed technical documentation.

Improved production monitoring & operational excellence across distributed systems.

Developed a public facing REST API, fully serverless on AWS, serving hundreds of thousands of customers.

Reduced AWS bill by more than 50% through architecture and resource-usage optimizations.

Mentored developers and reviewed design documents for reliability & maintainability.

Developed and maintained the orchestration platform that powers Amazon’s product catalog.

Executed zero-downtime migrations across several web services and retired legacy services that constrained catalog growth.

Supported the workflow engine serving banking applications such as loans, customer complaints etc.

Designed a workforce management system that empowers the bank’s operation center.

Implemented workflow engine running on top of Oracle, serving over 100,000 workflow instances daily.

Served as scrum master and mentored junior developers.

Developed solutions for IPTV products in C & C++.

Implemented teletext and RTSP parsers along with closed captioning and subtitles for IPTV.