About

Serdar Yildirim is a highly experienced software engineer with over 10 years of relevant experience in the industry. Currently working at Airbnb, he is responsible for building payment systems and integrating different payment infrastructures, creating APIs that are being used globally for financial transactions. Serdar has experience working on both backend and frontend development, but in the last five years, he has been focused on backend development. He is interested in software architecture and implementing scalable and robust applications. Serdar actively uses a range of technologies, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Redis, AWS, and Elixir. He has also used Go, Scala, and PHP in the past. He is highly skilled in software engineering, backend development, Redis, Ruby, JavaScript, MySQL, AWS, PHP, frontend development, Scala, Postgres, microservices, mobile, and web development. Before joining Airbnb, Serdar worked as a Lead Backend Engineer at Juvo, where he built payment systems and APIs using Ruby, PostgreSQL, and Redis. He also worked as a Software Engineer at The Factory in San Francisco, where he implemented RPC backend APIs for mobile and web applications and built a service-oriented architecture using Scala, Twitter's Finagle, Kestrel, and PostgreSQL database. Serdar holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Ege University, a Project Management certificate from the University of California, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Dokuz Eylul University. He completed his high school education at Izmir Ataturk Lisesi. Overall, Serdar is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for building scalable and robust applications. He has a diverse skill set and has worked with a range of technologies, making him an asset to any team.