Websites from Turkey

Ugur Sogukpinar is a Lead Backend Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable systems. Based in Istanbul, he has experience with technologies such as NodeJS, Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and Docker. He enjoys solving problems and has worked on projects ranging from WebRTC video banking systems to the tech integration of SmartGift into 1-800-Flowers.com. He is a husband and father who enjoys reading history books and running his own homelab server.

Araz Gholami is a programmer, blogger, and explorer. He creates things and strives to improve them, acting as a repairer rather than a replacer. Araz enjoys transforming complex concepts into simple ones. He is the creator of numerous projects including Odak.app, EasyCompress, and Soundscape AI. Araz values usability, typography, good user experience and accessibility. He has over ten years of experience teaching design and software development skills and holds a bachelor's degree in computer software engineering. He has been blogging since 2005.

Aliberk Sandıkçı is a technology enthusiast, open-source advocate, and Linux user. His interests and skills include network technologies, DevOps, Linux system engineering/administration, back-end development, algorithms, competitive programming, Linux application development, Fediverse development, and artificial intelligence. He is involved with the Pardus and TEMA foundations. Aliberk manages his personal website, where he shares articles and uses Jekyll for static site generation and CI/CD for updates. He also self-hosts his services, including mail, cloud, Git, and news. He participated in the Teknofest 2023 Pardus 21 Bug Catching and Suggestion Competition and interned at TÜBİTAK with the Pardus and Liderahenk teams.

Yalın Pala is a software developer at Netta Tech, residing in Ankara, Turkey. Passionate about building and creating, Yalın has honed their skills through self-driven exploration. With five years of full-time experience, they are deeply interested in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and actively contribute to open-source projects. Yalın is a member of FSF since 2015 and founded Perl Mongers Ankara in the same year. They are also a member of Chaos Computer Club. Beyond software, Yalın enjoys role-playing games, indie games, comic books, and game development.

İsmail Efe Top is a student at METU, majoring in Foreign Language Education and minoring in Logic and Philosophy of Science. He is interested in Corpus Linguistics and plans to pursue an academic career in that field. He enjoys discovering new places, programming, and customizing the programs he uses. He created his blog site using org-mode and pandoc.

Pouya Saadeghi is a product designer and developer and the creator of daisyUI, a CSS component library used in more than 500000 open-source projects worldwide. Over the past 16 years, Pouya has worked and collaborated with teams and clients to create software. He has explored different aspects of the software industry and has been involved in many projects and startups as a designer, developer, consultant, or co-founder.