Gökberk Karaca

Munich, Bavaria, Germany · Remote

• —Selected for a founding 4-person team alongside Principal-level engineers to define the unified service entity architecture across Atlassian products — authored the RFC, set the implementation roadmap, and led engineering through initial release.
• —Self-initiated the Change Management unification programme — identified systemic fragmentation across subdomains, led 5–6 engineers to delivery, achieving 60% code reduction and ~50% faster Risk Insights API responses.
• —Led zero-downtime migration of hundreds of TBs across AWS accounts as part of a legacy platform decommission — authored the ADR, coordinated ~15 microservices over 6–9 months with no data loss using a custom dual-write strategy.
• —Migrated hundreds of thousands of live records across incompatible product data models with zero customer-visible disruption — implemented event-driven dual-write via SNS/SQS with feature-flag-controlled source switching for instant rollback.
• —Designed and led Risk Insights — a scoring system for all JSM customers analysing past incidents and upcoming changes to surface risk signals on change tickets — and extended the platform with Risk Assessment Questionnaire.
• —Built an end-to-end test infrastructure for Deployment Tracking & Gating by spinning up real CI/CD provider integrations in a test tenant — detected 5–6 cross-team incidents and caught 1–2 provider-side outages before they escalated.
• —Identified that all Atlassian teams faced the same accidental deletion risk and drove collaboration with the data platform team to build shared migration tooling — became the first adopter and achieved a 40% reduction in client code volume.
• —Led migration of Opsgenie's authentication infrastructure to Atlassian's identity platform; maintained shared Java libraries used by ~10 product teams (~70 engineers) across all Opsgenie microservices.
• —Independently identified and shipped self-hosted GitLab support for Deployment Tracking & Gating, eliminating an estimated $30,000 in annual customer support costs; conducted 100+ technical interviews.

Software Engineer

Ankara, Turkey

• —Developed weather radar simulation software for the Boeing 737 aircraft, working with real-time sensor data pipelines in a safety-critical avionics context.
• —Implemented ARINC data transfer protocols — the industry-standard communication specification for civil aviation systems.

Summer Research Intern

College Park, MD, USA

• —Conducted cybersecurity research under Associate Prof. Tudor Dumitras, investigating the mis-issuance of code signing certificates at scale.
• —Built a static analysis tool to detect certificate validity violations, reducing the need for manual audit of signing pipelines.
• —Research accepted and presented as a poster at NDSS — one of the world's top-tier network and distributed systems security conferences.

B.Sc. Computer Science