Cebrail Erdogan

Work Experiences

Danske Bank

Apr 2021 - Feb 2023 - Solution Architect

After finishing the "orchestrator" application (see prev. project), the next step was to provide new services to ease the adoption of new channels and products. My project focused on the first. My responsibility was to design a system, that would allow any product ordering channel to easily compose an order. That means providing APIs that would allow them to search for products available, render forms as expected, and also provide API that would let them prefill data fields. Another functionality was that all orders would be created as a draft in our system, this would allow for early validation, and also continuing an order started in another channel. As a solution architect, my responsibilities were to design the necessary services to handle the functions I just mentioned. I was involved in the following aspects of the project:

1. System Design
2. Alignment across stakeholders - as an application between channel and fulfillment, this was important
3. DevOps design with Azure
4. Microservice and database design
5. Authorization with JWT
6. General infrastructure design such as network enclaves, API gateways and so on.

Danske Bank

Apr 2020 - Feb 2021 - Technical Lead

With this project, we embarked on a journey to introduce a new channel-agnostic, product ordering orchestration application that can fulfill orders fully automatically - where an order contains products such as cards and accounts. The application would be able to generate documents, create signing cases and implement the products. This turned out to be an important foundation for later projects. I started as a developer, but the project quickly scaled up to a large team of 10 developers, which meant we had to split the team to two teams, I became the technical lead of one of the teams. As the technical lead, I was part of all architectural decisions - working closely with the solution architect. I was involved in designing and implementing the following aspects:

1. DevOps using Jenkins
2. Microservice and database design
3. Authorization with JWT
4. Event-driven design with RabbitMQ
5. General infrastructure design such as network enclaves, API gateways and so on.

Of course, I was not just designing, I was also responsible for implementing much of this together with the team. Together with the team, I delivered a solution that today handles a large portion of the orders coming in.

Danske Bank

Jan 2019 - Mar 2020 - Software Engineer

I was responsible for the backend development of an advisory product ordering channel - a channel used by our advisors to order products like accounts, cards, loans and so on. Main tasks was to support the new feature requests coming in, often resulting in new APIs for the frontend. During this period, I was also responsible of migrating all of our infrastructure to new datacenters. During the transition, the application was moved from virtual machines to a cloud based solution in OpenShift. The transition happened smoothly with minimal downtime.

Danske Bank

Sep 2017 - Jan 2019 - Software Engineer

Assigned to a new project that involves delivering a GDPR related capability for the customers in the bank. The project's goal was to deliver a bank-wide solution that can enable a customer to order an "insight report". The system would fetch all customer related GDPR data and send it to the customer to give them an insight into the sensitive data kept in the bank. As one of the two developers on the team. I was responsible for designing and implementing the application. Along with that, I built the needed DevOps capabilities for our Java backend and React frontend. The project was very intense, as many data source systems was involved and the deadline was already near at project start. We ended up designing a system that enabled all data sources to "own" their data, which they could then send us upon request. The integration technologies used were Pub/Sub (MQ), SOAP, REST, and WebSphere MQ.

Personal Projects

Circle Tuner

Dec 2018 - Apr 2023 - Frontend Developer

Circle Tuner is an app for tuning musical intstruments. The algorithm to determine the pitch is based on a method called autocorrelation and is coded instead of using library for flexibility. The application is coded with Angular and Ionic Framework, enabling support for both Android and iOS. Take a look at the code here https://gitlab.cebrailerdogan.com/cebrail/circle-tuner

Alas - Your Travel Buddy

Apr 2023 - Now - Full-Stack Developer

Alas is a Full-stack project using Java for backend and React for frontend. The project is meant for experimenting and building something that I have wanted to have available myself. With Alas, you can plan, log and track you trips privately and share with your friends. Many other features are described in the repository. Alas is built with Docker so it can be privately hosted. Take a look at the code here https://gitlab.cebrailerdogan.com/alas-tavel