Vedat Can Ak

Backend Engineer with four years of enterprise experience and earlier university software development and research. Built 30+ Python/PostgreSQL APIs and backend services across 3+ product lines; reduced response payloads by ~25%. Combines production performance tuning, React/TypeScript skills and AWS experience to build maintainable products.

Brings

Java-based optimization research and cross-functional delivery experience to evolving service architectures.

Backend Developer at OSF Digital (2022-07 – 2026-06)

Full-time

• Built 30+ RESTful APIs with Python, PostgreSQL and Docker, and designed core backend services across 3+ product lines to support product development and integration.
• Resolved PostgreSQL bottlenecks under concurrent load, reducing buffer-mapping operations by 60%; optimized SQL queries to improve production performance.
• Implemented server-side filtering and search, reducing average response payloads by ~25% and lowering client-side processing overhead.
• Built an audit/history system for critical data changes, cutting discrepancy investigation time by ~40% and improving compliance reporting.
• Contributed to 2 major releases in under 12 months, including one with the fastest user-acceptance phase in company history; coordinated delivery with frontend, QA and product teams.
• Created technical documentation and onboarding guides that reduced new-developer ramp-up time by ~30%, supporting faster knowledge transfer.

Teaching Assistant at Yaşar University (2016-01 – 2022-06)

• Redesigned programming and mathematics labs, increasing student engagement by 20% through practical exercises and clearer learning materials.
• Mentored 200+ students annually, translating complex technical concepts into practical applications and actionable feedback.

Mobile Developer at Yaşar University · University-funded Projects (2016-04 – 2017-08)

• Developed mobile applications and supporting web services for university research; analyzed project data to support research functionality.

Software Developer at Yaşar University · TÜBİTAK-funded Projects (2016-04 – 2016-06)

• Built mobile applications, web services and concept-map visualization tools to support comparison tasks in intelligent tutoring systems.

PhD in Computer Engineering – Ege University, İzmir (2026)

MSc in Computer Engineering – Yaşar University, İzmir (2018)

BSc in Computer Engineering – Yaşar University, İzmir (2015)