Merve Can

Senior Software Engineer
Ghent, Belgium

Software engineer focused on distributed and event-driven systems. I work on scalable APIs, asynchronous processing, and production systems, with strong emphasis on testing and observability.

Experience
Showpad Jan 2021 – present
Senior Software Engineer since Apr 2025 · Software Engineer before
  • Develop and evolve a high-throughput REST API serving web, mobile, and integration clients
  • Implement asynchronous file processing pipelines (video, PDF, audio) using SQS, Lambda, and Go workers
  • Contribute to streaming-based audit logging with Kafka and Apache Flink
  • Build serverless automation services using TypeScript and AWS (Kinesis, DynamoDB)
  • Implement service-to-service communication via REST and gRPC
  • Design and maintain observability practices using Datadog (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting)
  • Participate in on-call rotation and actively diagnose and resolve production incidents
  • Write and maintain unit and integration tests
Asseco SEE (ASEE) Aug 2019 – Jan 2021
Software Engineer
  • Developed backend services for a high-scale payment gateway platform
  • Integrated international payment providers across multiple markets
  • Implemented secure transaction processing workflows
  • Contributed to performance-sensitive financial systems
Showpad Jun 2018 – Sep 2018
Software Engineering Intern
  • Contributed to mobile and backend features
  • Worked with Kotlin and Java-based systems
Technologies
languages
Kotlin Go TypeScript Java PHP Python
messaging
Kafka Apache Flink RabbitMQ REST gRPC
data
MySQL DynamoDB MongoDB SQL
cloud / infra
AWS EC2 Lambda SQS Kinesis S3 RDS Docker Kubernetes
observability
Datadog
Education
Izmir Institute of Technology
BSc Computer Engineering
2013 – 2019
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
2024
Languages
Turkish Native
English Professional
Dutch Beginner