Can (Rafael) Savastürk-Software Development for People

In a lean, execution-focused environment, I took ownership beyond a narrow engineering lane, shaping and implementing systems across backend, data, and infrastructure. Partnered directly with the three founders in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment, turning strategic priorities into concrete technical decisions and production outcomes.

• Owned core platform development across backend (Django/Rest Framework/Postgres), ETL (Python/Dagster), infrastructure (Terraform/Kubernetes/AWS), and frontend (typescript/react) for a climate-tech SaaS product, driving continuous cross-stack development across five repositories from October 2021 to this day.
• Architected and owned a standalone internal Python scoring framework for CRC assessments, using YAML-driven rules and metaprogramming to enable non-technical users to define complex evaluation logic without hardcoded implementations.
• Built and stabilized ETL and scraping pipelines using Dagster and Scrapfly, improving document ingestion, tagging, retry behavior, deployment flow, and operational resilience.
• Contributed to platform modernization and reliability through Django/Python upgrades, Postgres/RDS and EKS changes, CDN/TLS updates, test and performance improvements, and observability hardening.
• Drove backend engineering for product features, translating requirements into technical specifications, API contracts, data structures, and scalable implementation plans.

• Owned a Django REST API for a service marketplace, including data modeling, serializers, views, deployment, and cloud integration.
• Deployed and configured Django applications on Google App Engine with Google Cloud SQL, Firebase Authentication, and Docker-based environments.
• Integrated geocoding workflows using the Nominatim/OpenStreetMap API.

Developed Python tools for automated REST API data validation, JSON processing, and visualization of data-processing issues.