Umut Kirgöz
Technical Lead at Mynet
Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolUmut Kirgöz is a Technical Lead with 12+ years of hands-on experience architecting and modernizing high-traffic web platforms, currently shaping engineering at Mynet—the largest web portal in Turkey. He specializes in transforming legacy, "spaghetti" codebases into maintainable Laravel microservices, improving performance and developer productivity while managing sites that handle millions of daily visitors. A pragmatic leader and former Scrum Master, he blends technical mentorship, sprint discipline, and infrastructure know-how (load balancing, caching, ad tech) to deliver scalable, reliable systems. His background includes building webmail, Big Data integrations, and ad ops tooling, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective across product, infrastructure, and monetization. Early entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder and an engineering education in chemical engineering inform his systems-thinking approach and operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Chemical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Chemical Engineering at Hacettepe UniversityAmasya Anadolu Lisesi
English, Turkish
Stackoverflow
2,103reputation
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12answers
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Github Skills (34)
sequel10
sequelpro10
mariadb-database10
mysql9
mariadb9
objective-c9
macos9
amp-html9
sentry8
prebid8
sdk8
laravel7
header-bidding7
php7
html7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
umutkirgoz/prayertimes
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Muslim Prayer Times
Contributions:13 releases, 21 commits, 25 PRs in 4 years 4 months
reactprayer-timestimesmuslimnodejs
umutkirgoz/mcrypt_compat
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
PHP 5.x/7.x polyfill for mcrypt extension.
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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