Scalability
Building backend services designed to grow.
01 / About
Engineering reliable backend systems.
A deep dive into my background, core engineering philosophy, and educational foundation.
Atahan Tutar
Backend Engineer
Specializing in high-throughput API architectures, asynchronous processing, and performance-tuned data layers.
LOCATION: Turkey
FOCUS: NestJS · Node.js · Distributed Systems
STATUS: Open to opportunities
Atahan is a backend-focused Software Engineer with experience in internship and full-time roles on enterprise-level projects.
He focuses on building scalable backend services, REST APIs and maintainable architectures using technologies such as NestJS, Node.js and TypeORM.
His backend experience also includes caching, asynchronous workflows, queue-based processing and performance-oriented database operations using Redis, BullMQ and RabbitMQ.
Core Principles
How I Build Software
Performance
Improving response times through caching, optimized queries and asynchronous processing.
Maintainability
Writing modular, clean and sustainable backend architectures.
Engineering Focus
Built around the hard parts.
API Architecture
RESTful APIs and modular backend services.
Database Engineering
Relational data modelling, query optimization and performance-focused database operations.
Caching
Redis-based caching strategies for frequently accessed application data.
Async Workflows
Queue-based jobs, batch processes and asynchronous workflows using BullMQ and RabbitMQ.
Education
Foundations.
Primary Degree
Karadeniz Technical University — Trabzon
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
Earlier Studies
Dündar Uçar Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School — Istanbul
Database Programming