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Okan Akvec Diagram

A whiteboard view of who I am — identity wired into education, experience and summary, all feeding what drives me.

education
Trakya University2025 — 2023

Computer Engineering - Master Degree

  • GPA: 3.38 / 4.00
Trakya University2014 — 2010

Computer Engineering - Bachelor Degree

  • GPA: 3.35 / 4.00
experience
VALENSPARAPresent

Senior Fullstack Developer

OBSS2026 — 2025

Senior Manager II

Payten2025 — 2022

Scrum Master & Senior Fullstack Developer

Havelsan2022 — 2017

Senior Java Software Developer

Guru2017 — 2015

Backend Developer - Java

summary

Senior Fullstack(Java, React) Engineer crafting distributed systems and high-scale payments processing 1M+ daily transactions.

technical

Software

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • Kafka
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Jaeger
  • Loki
  • Tempo
  • Grafana Alloy
  • Micrometer

Reliability

  • Circuit Breaker (Resilience4j)
  • Retry & Backoff strategies
  • Rate Limiting
  • Idempotency

Availability

  • Load Balancing
  • Health Checks
  • Monitoring
  • Alerting

Concurency

  • Threads
  • CompletableFuture
  • Reactive Programming
  • Locks
  • Backpressure handling

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey