Önder Altınkurt

Lead Data Engineer at Dream Games

Önder Altınkurt has a strong background in data engineering and software development. Önder currently works as the Lead Data Engineer at Dream Games, where they manage data infrastructure on GCP with tools like BigQuery, Airflow-Composer, and dbt Cloud. Önder is responsible for migrating game event collection from Kafka to Google PubSub and ingesting data from various sources using Python. Önder also handles Druid cluster management and the development of a client event publishing SDK.

Prior to Dream Games, Önder worked at ING, where they held multiple roles. Önder was the Data Engineering Chapter Lead and the Enterprise Data Architect. As the Data Engineering Chapter Lead, they were involved in various projects like designing a serverless data lake architecture and a central audit log architecture. Önder also worked on data modeling and governance projects and a data model discovery project. As the Enterprise Data Architect, they were responsible for the data management tribe and led the design of the data warehouse management, information management, data engineering, artificial intelligence, data model management, and data governance domains.

Before their time at ING, Önder worked at QNB Finansbank as an Application Engineer, where they were involved in the Atlas Project, responsible for design and development of new merchant management systems, end-of-day systems, and loyalty systems.

Önder also gained experience at Banksoft as an Application Development Specialist, where they designed and developed credit card systems for clients like HSBC, Vakıfbank, and Halkbank. Önder also provided consulting services for Microsoft SQL Server databases and handled tasks like instance tuning, performance tuning, maintenance, data governance, capacity planning, database design, and reporting.

Overall, Önder Altınkurt has a diverse range of experience in data engineering, software development, and database consulting. Their expertise lies in managing data infrastructure, designing data architectures, and developing software systems.

Önder Altınkurt completed their Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Istanbul Technical University from 2003 to 2008. Önder then pursued a Certificate Program in Data Science from Özyeğin University in 2018-2019. Prior to that, they attended Istanbul Atatürk Fen Lisesi from 2000 to 2003, but the field of study and degree obtained are unknown. Additionally, Önder Altınkurt has a certification in Microsoft Sql Server MCITP Database Administrator 2008, but the institution and date of obtaining the certification are not specified.

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  • Lead Data Engineer

    August, 2021 - present