About

Umut Sirin is a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Twitch with a passion for problem-solving using web technologies on both the backend and frontend tiers. He is also a computer scientist who enjoys creating simple programming languages in his free time. With almost 6 years of relevant experience, Umut has a diverse skill set that includes expertise in react.js, redux, graphql, bleeding edge browser technologies, javascript transpilers & bundlers, rpc systems, blockchain implementations, kubernetes, and domain-specific languages for the web. In his previous role at Samba TV, Umut was responsible for creating the frontend architecture of a SaaS platform, including deploying a main shell react.js application for all other isolated react.js applications developed by individual product engineering teams to be deployed. He also created an access control layer for each user (brands) between the deployed applications, allowed deployed applications to define feature flags, and allowed access control layer options for users (brands) to be defined using application feature flags. Umut also created a company fork of create-react-app to be used by each product engineering team in the company and extended webpack bundling functionality to create a special bundle for individual applications to be used by the main shell application inside the SaaS platform. He also maintained the company's react.js UI component library. As a Founding Engineer at microverse.network, Umut designed and integrated remotely bundled workers into the microverse network, providing remote function call capabilities to browser applications by calling out other workers running current visitors' browsers. He also created a shell CLI application to create and serve a microverse application easily and designed a redux.js integration/plugin to allow working with microverse data easily on redux/react applications. Umut holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Information Systems from Binghamton University, a Master of Science in Computer Science from International Technological University (ITU), and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He also attended Denizli Anadolu Lisesi. Overall, Umut is a highly skilled and experienced full-stack engineer with a passion for creating innovative solutions using the latest web technologies.