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Open to senior software engineering roles

Emre Ashak.

Software Engineer @ Insider

Full-stack, backend at heartGoTypeScriptNext.js

I build reliable, fast software end to end — Go services and multi-tenant platforms underneath, polished product on top. Four years doing exactly that at Insider; eight in and around the web.

work authorization~/.config/hiring.env
AUTHORIZATIONEU work authorization
VISA_SPONSORSHIPNo visa or sponsorship needed
LOCATION_MODERemote across Europe · open to relocation
Bulgarian (EU) citizen — full freedom of movement
  • 8+
    years shipping software
  • 1,200+
    brands on platforms I build
  • 4 yrs
    engineering at Insider

psst — there's a real terminal below. type `help`.

At Insider, I help build the platform behind

  • Samsung
  • IKEA
  • Singapore Airlines
  • Toyota
  • Allianz
  • and 1,200+ brands worldwide

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a real shell — type 'help'
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skills

What I reach for, grouped by where it lives. Deep in the backend, comfortable to the edge.
languages/6 items
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Swift
  • SQL
frontend/5 items
  • Next.js
  • React
  • Vue
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
backend/4 items
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • REST APIs
cloud-infra/5 items
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
data/2 items
  • MySQL
  • Redis
commerce/3 items
  • Shopify Plus
  • Shopify Functions
  • Liquid
ways-of-working/5 items
  • Scrum
  • Agile
  • CI/CD
  • Code review
  • Mentoring
spoken/3 items
  • Turkish — native
  • English — professional
  • German — basic

experience

Eight years of shipping — from storefronts to platform engineering.

Insider

Software Engineer II

Apr 2022 — PresentcurrentRemote · İstanbul

Building integrations and tooling on a customer-engagement platform serving 1,200+ global brands. Backend-heavy work across a multi-tenant system, with a part-time Scrum Master hat on the side.

  • Own a Go-based ingest pipeline handling millions of events per day.
  • Cut a hot-path p99 from ~800ms to ~120ms.
  • Untangled multi-tenant Laravel monoliths and shipped Vue tooling on top.

Reflect Studio

Shopify Expert

Feb 2020 — Mar 2022İstanbul

Three brands, one codebase: custom Shopify Plus themes, a returns system that handled the holiday spike without a single outage, and campaign workflows that ran themselves.

  • Built a custom returns platform + analytics admin from scratch.
  • Automated campaigns with Shopify Functions and Klaviyo flows.

Escape Watches

E-Commerce Manager

Sep 2017 — Dec 2018İstanbul

Ran the whole storefront — theme, copy, product photos, shipping labels. The kind of role where you learn what "end-to-end" actually means.

LC Waikiki

IT Intern

Sep 2012 — Aug 2013İstanbul

Frontline IT support across HQ — hardware, software, and the kind of incident triage you only learn by doing.

education/
  • Celal Bayar ÜniversitesiComputer Programming · Associate Degree · 2015 — 2019

certificationsGo — The Complete Developer’s Guide · Vue — The Complete Guide (Router & Composition API) · English B1

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Let’s work together

I’m open to senior software engineering roles — full-stack or backend, remote across Europe or relocation. I hold EU work authorization, so hiring me is paperwork-free. Always up for a conversation about side projects, Shopify weirdness, or making things tiny and fast.

Open to roles · EU work authorization · remote or relocation

Muğla, Türkiye · UTC+3

© 2026 Emre Ashak · emre.zipBuilt with Astro, React & Tailwind — shipped on the edge.

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