Nazim Balayoglu
Verified Expert in Engineering
Senior Full Stack Developer
Nazim is a full-stack developer with more than 17 years of C# experience. He has developed highly scalable, resilient, and robust microservices. In addition to proven back-end experience, he developed single-page applications (SPA) using the Angular framework on the front-end. He has worked on Azure Cloud-based projects, where he's used Azure Durable Functions, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, and Azure Cosmos DB.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Programming, Cloud, Azure, Microservices, Microsoft SQL Server, Git, RabbitMQ, Azure DevOps, Angular, .NET Core, C#
The most amazing...
...project has been to transform an app that is implemented on Azure Data Factory to Azure Durable Functions as an extension to a procurement project.
Work Experience
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
Fuse by Allen & Overy
- Migrated the application implemented on Azure Data Factory to Azure Durable Functions which is a Serverless architecture.
- Designed the application's central logging mechanism and fed it into Azure Application Insight.
- Prepared build pipelines to create artifacts and to publish Nuget packages for the common libraries using Azure DevOps.
- Integrated due diligence workflow with Orbis API to get company information like sector, rating, etc.
- Managed to run Azure Functions as a Docker Container on the VM, because of the reason there was a data restriction and Azure Functions were not supported by Microsoft in that region.
- Integrated Azure Functions with HiqhQ Collaborate Tool's REST API using OAuth2.0 authentication.
Senior Software Developer (Freelance, Startup)
Vector AI
- Contributed to a machine learning project for a startup company. Developed application to do text clustering, text extraction, title, and content identification of data that was coming from image OCR API using Python.
- Developed REST API using Flask to liaise with React front-end developers.
- Implemented utilities to test processes and wrote results back to the source image file. The result was drawn as a box with correct coordinates onto the image file like title, identified content, location, or document identity number.
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
Benchmark Capital
- Migrated a couple of applications to use OAuth 2.0 authentication mechanism.
- Implemented batch user and company details update on the CRM module to be used by admin users.
- Implemented microservices to populate Azure Cosmos DB from the legacy SQL Server for the changes done via the legacy system.
- Implemented REST APIs to be used by the React front end.
- Refactoring, performance improvements and maintenance on ASP.NET (MVC 5) application.
Senior Full-stack .NET Developer (Contractor)
Allen & Overy
- Used Microservices architecture and Rabbit MQ for messaging implemented integrations of multiple legal applications from scratch.
- Automated workflows consuming REST API of the DMS tool that was newly bought.
- Automated management of legal documents retention for the legislation.
- Implemented web pages, using Angular SPA architecture, for the legal departments.
- Provided REST APIs to third party companies through the Google Apigee tool for document processing, PDF generation, and content preparation.
- Added features to legacy MVC app to communicate with microservices and APIs.
Senior .NET Developer (Contractor)
HSBC
- Prepared high level and technical design documents for the integrations of seven different HSBC global applications.
- Implemented integrations of seven different HSBC global applications between Turkey, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, and the USA using IBM MQ. Integrations had Global Payments transactions of SWIFT, EFT, Tax, Custom and Invoice payments.
- Designed a central database and request/response logging system on MS SQL 2014 for the integrations.
Software Architectural Consultant
Intertech - Denizbank
- Migrated the core banking system of Denizbank to HTML5.
- Designed and implemented the API to connect Oracle and MS SQL from ServiceBus.
- Integrated credit decision and scoring system of Denizbank Turkey with Sberbank Russia using IBM MQ.
- Helped to integrate Azerbaijan ASB Bank's new core banking system SWIFT and EFT payments with the Azerbaijan Central Bank.
Software Team Leader
Intertech - Denizbank
- Redesigned and implemented a Java-based in-house legacy risk evaluation system (ScoreCard) using .Net framework that processed 700,000 credit applications received via SMS.
- Implemented a credit decision application using .Net framework from scratch.
- Managed and developed an infrastructure for the web performance load test of the entire integrated core banking system with 30 virtual servers and more than 10,000 virtual users.
Software Developer
Intertech - DenizBank
- Maintained and tuned legacy Java-based applications, and improved performance.
- Integrated credit bureau and intelligence systems with the Central Bank of Turkey.
- Involved in the development of core modules of a new core banking system with .Net framework in DenizBank.
Experience
Expense Commission Infrastructure
Procurement Project
Machine Learning Project
Coronavirus Case Tracker - Chrome Extension
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Toptal React Academy
Skills
Languages
C#, SQL, C#.NET, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, HTML5, Java, XML, XSLT, Python 2, TypeScript, Python
Frameworks
.NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Angular, Swagger, ASP.NET, Windows PowerShell, Apache Struts, Jakarta Server Pages (JSP), Rhino Mocks, NUnit, Entity Framework Core, OAuth 2, Bootstrap, Flask
Tools
Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio, GitHub, RabbitMQ, Git, Jira, GitLab, Subversion (SVN), TFS, IBM MQ, Azure Key Vault, GitLab CI/CD, Trello
Paradigms
RESTful Development, Agile, Microservices, Azure DevOps, Scrum, REST, Model View Controller (MVC), DevOps
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Databases, Azure SQL
Other
Programming, Full-stack, Cloud, Finance, Chrome Extensions, APIs, Serverless, Windows Services, IIS, Resin, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Web Services, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), Code Review, SOAP, Storage, Azure Service Bus
Libraries/APIs
NServiceBus, Entity Framework, ASPX, jQuery, LINQ, Moq, REST APIs, React, Node.js
Platforms
Web, Azure, Azure Functions, Internet Explorer, Docker, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering
Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey
Certifications
Toptal React Academy Graduate
Toptal, LLC
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
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