Ziya Gokturk
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Sydney Area Australia
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Top SchoolZiya Gokturk is a Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff based in Sydney with 15+ years designing and delivering enterprise web, SOA and client/server systems using Java/J2EE, Ruby and Python. He has progressed from hands-on engineering at Siemens and Aselsan to technical leadership roles across government and major financial institutions, most recently leading engineering chapters at ING and now driving platform work at Oracle. Ziya combines deep JEE architecture and concurrency expertise with modern front-end experience (Angular/React) and a track record of owning full SDLC responsibilities from requirements to integration testing. He holds advanced computer engineering degrees, including PhD-level study, which underpins his methodical approach to complex system design and team mentorship. Notably, his career spans both defence/government projects and large-scale banking platforms, giving him a rare blend of security-conscious engineering and enterprise delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Bilkent UniversityAntalya Anadolu LisesiPhd, Computer Engineering, Phd, Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ozkangokturk/moviefan2
May 2018 - Dec 2025
spring angular2 template project
Contributions:8 PRs, 9 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 8 months
spring-bootspringboot3springangular2angular
ozkangokturk/moviefan
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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