Kaan Acar

■ Designed and shipped a TypeScript/React internal dashboard for real-time visibility into 50+ CI pipelines and 200+ services, replacing a fragmented set of legacy tools — adopted by 80+ engineers across 6 teams.

■ Partnered with backend engineers to design REST contracts and event schemas powering cross-team integrations; led migration from polling to event-driven flows on Kafka, reducing internal API load by 60%.

■ Built Python + FastAPI services orchestrating telemetry-driven test runs across Docker and Kubernetes clusters; reduced average verification cycle time from 45 min to under 12 min and cut AWS pipeline costs by 35%.

■ Architected AWS CDK infrastructure (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, EventBridge) for a high-throughput logs and metrics pipeline processing 1.2 TB/day of vehicle telemetry data.

■ Introduced LLM-assisted test generation tooling (Claude API + structured prompt templates) that produced 40% of new integration tests in the last release cycle, saving an estimated 200+ engineering hours per quarter.

■ On-call rotation for platform reliability; authored postmortems and runbooks now used as the team's quality baseline.

■ Shipped a React/TypeScript dashboard streaming telemetry from 500+ devices via WebSocket fan-out at 8k events/sec.

■ Built Node.js/Express + PostgreSQL APIs; query optimization cut dashboard p95 latency 1.8s→220ms.

■ Wrote C++ ingestion services processing 12k samples/sec per node at sub-10ms latency.

■ Set up GitLab CI/CD with Docker deployments, catching 90% of regressions pre-production.

■ Built Python (PyTorch/NumPy) frameworks validating custom FPGA convolution logic against reference models across 100+ STFT/wavelet cases.

■ Built a Python/Plotly visualization tool for model and audio-processing metrics on multi-GB datasets; adopted by all 8 lab members.

■ Introduced engineering practices (Git workflow, 85% test coverage, structured docs), cited by the supervising professor as the lab baseline.

■ Co-authored internal technical reports; contributed to 2 conference paper submissions.