Emre Ashak (Emre Işık)

Backend Software Engineer · Go and event-driven systems, proven at 1,200+ brand multi-tenant scale

[email protected] emre.zip linkedin.com/in/emreashak github.com/emreisik95 EU citizen · remote across Europe or relocation · UTC+3

EU work authorization: Bulgarian (EU) citizen · no visa or sponsorship required · open to remote across Europe and relocation.

Summary

Backend engineer with 4+ years at Insider, building and operating Go services on a multi-tenant platform used by 1,200+ global brands. Owns an NSQ event-ingest pipeline handling 17 million events per day and the full Shopify integration surface (customer sync, Markets, Functions), backed by a daily reconciliation job that lifted data accuracy from roughly 60% to 99.99%. Earlier web and e-commerce background.

Experience

Software Engineer II · Insider
Apr 2022 - Present · Remote · İstanbul

Own backend services on a multi-tenant marketing platform serving 1,200+ global brands, spanning a high-throughput Go ingest pipeline and the full Shopify integration surface.

  • Built and operate a Go event-ingest pipeline on NSQ processing 17 million events per day across all tenants, the entry point feeding downstream campaigns and analytics.
  • Hardened the pipeline with at-least-once delivery, idempotent consumers, retry and dead-letter handling, and backpressure-aware consumer scaling, validated with integration, contract, and load tests.
  • Designed and built the multi-tenant Shopify customer-sync service, isolating each brand through a shared-schema tenant_id model across 1,200+ tenants.
  • Engineered a daily reconciliation job that raised Shopify-to-platform data accuracy from roughly 60% to 99.99%, surfacing sync drift before it reaches downstream campaigns.
  • Delivered Shopify Markets support, unlocking commerce across 8 regions and currencies for global brands.
  • Decomposed a multi-tenant Laravel monolith into maintainable services, ran it on AWS with Kubernetes and Terraform through CI/CD, and instrumented it with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Sentry, contributing to incident response.
  • Authored design documents and RFCs, set code-review standards, mentored and onboarded 5+ engineers, and serve part-time as Scrum Master for one team.
Go · NSQ · TypeScript · Laravel · Vue.js · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · AWS · Prometheus · Grafana · Datadog · Sentry · Elasticsearch · Redis · MySQL · Shopify · Shopify Markets
Shopify Expert · Reflect Studio
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 · İstanbul

Sole engineer for client WWF Market (wwfmarket.com), the WWF Türkiye online store on Shopify Plus. Built the storefront and a custom returns system end to end.

  • Built the entire Shopify Plus storefront theme from scratch in Liquid, with PageFly subpages for campaign and content landing.
  • Developed a custom returns system (iade.wwfmarket.com) end to end, covering the customer return flow and the operational backend.
  • Built a returns analytics admin surfacing return reasons and sizing issues to drive merchandising decisions.
  • Integrated Klaviyo flows, segments, and transactional emails across the customer lifecycle.
  • Automated marketing and operational campaigns with Shopify automation and Flow.
Laravel · Vue.js · React · Tailwind CSS · Shopify Plus · Liquid · Klaviyo · PageFly
Web Developer (Contract) · Freelance
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020 · İstanbul

Contract web and Shopify development for small-business clients between full-time roles, while completing my degree.

Shopify · Liquid · Laravel · JavaScript
E-Commerce Manager · Escape Watches
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018 · İstanbul

Owned the Shopify storefront end to end for an online watch retailer, self-teaching Liquid to build and customize the theme.

  • Ran the full storefront from theme to fulfilment, including all product imagery and content.
Shopify · Liquid · Adobe Creative Suite
IT Intern · LC Waikiki
Sep 2012 - Aug 2013 · İstanbul

Frontline IT support across HQ: hardware and software troubleshooting, infrastructure upkeep, and incident triage.

IT Support · Hardware

Selected Projects

End-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer file sharing with no size limits, plus stored transfers with shareable links.

Next.js · WebRTC · AES-256

Native macOS menubar app for Claude Code usage: live limits, cost breakdown, and burn-rate forecast. Signed and notarized.

Swift · macOS

Free Scrum tooling (retros, planning poker, team health) with no signup or seat fees.

Next.js · TypeScript · Cloudflare

Skills

Languages
Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, SQL
Backend
Go, Node.js, Laravel, REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed systems, Event-driven systems, NSQ
Frontend
Next.js, React, Vue, Astro, Tailwind CSS
Cloud & infra
AWS, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Sentry
Data
MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch
Commerce
Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, Shopify Markets, Liquid
Ways of working
Agile, Scrum, Scrum Master, Code review, Mentoring

Education

Celal Bayar Üniversitesi
Computer Programming
Associate Degree · 2015 - 2019

Languages

  • Turkish: Native
  • English: Professional
  • German: Basic