Doğan Çeçen

During my eight years at Amazon, I worked mainly on EC2 and VPC consoles and occasionally collaborated with different API teams. I also helped many new engineers (junior or experienced) become effective quickly in their journey at Amazon. As for the projects, recent notable ones were the migration from GWT to React and from legacy Amazon infrastructure to AWS.

I worked on a project similar to TripAdvisor, focused more on social media. It involved creating a multi-language website with a REST API for mobile clients, and the front end also utilizes this API. On the front end, I employed Facebook's React and adhered to the Flux methodology.

I worked on a hotel booking platform tailored for B2B customers, which is also utilized by our own hotel and holiday booking websites. In this role, I contributed to various projects related to hotel search, holiday booking, and the payment platform. One of my key achievements was implementing significant performance improvements in search functionality, which enhanced customer experience, boosted revenue, and facilitated new features like multi-room search.

Additionally, I led the front-end team responsible for multiple websites. We undertook a major migration from an old single-layer PHP codebase mixed with HTML and JavaScript to a more modern stack using React for the front end and Django/Python, Cython, and C++ for the back end. Since it was a tourism company, all our websites were available in multiple languages, ensuring broad accessibility and user engagement.

An online ebook store. The main site was coded in Python and Django. I've worked heavily on its online ebook reader (in order to see it, you must log in, and then you can preview some of the books). Its reader is responsive, and it remembers where you left off; even if you switch between devices, it brings the correct paragraph back.