Emre Durukan

Senior Data Engineer @ Hopi

Istanbul | Jan 2023 - Present

• Optimized large-scale BigQuery datasets, improving performance and reducing cloud costs by ~30%.
• Designed and maintained batch and streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud Platform.
• Implemented IAM, encryption, and access controls to ensure data security and compliance.
• Improved data reliability through monitoring, validation, and pipeline optimization.

Data Engineer @ Hopi

Istanbul | Aug 2021 - Jan 2023

• Built and maintained real-time data processing pipelines using Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow.
• Developed and orchestrated ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, Luigi, Apache Spark, and Hive SQL.
• Managed cloud services including BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Run.
• Improved pipeline performance and stability through optimization and proactive issue resolution.

Data Engineer @ Alta Data

Istanbul | May 2019 - Jul 2021

• Built ETL pipelines and data curation processes to support analytics and business intelligence use cases.
• Integrated data quality checks and validation rules into pipelines to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Developed Tableau dashboards to provide actionable insights for stakeholders.

Software Developer @ Publins

Denizli | Nov 2017 - Nov 2018

• Developed modern web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL.
• Built data processing systems with Ruby and implemented basic machine learning algorithms.
• Maintained AWS infrastructure including Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, S3, and RDS.