I design & operate petabyte-scale streaming platforms, ship edge-native products, and lead teams that turn raw events into decisions. 10+ years across Flink · Kafka · ClickHouse · AWS · Cloudflare.
name: İren Saltalı
role: Software Engineer · Architect · Product Creator · Founder
focus: distributed systems · streaming · cloud-native · edge · AI
now: Founder @ 4AI Teknoloji — building products at the edge
prev: Software Engineer @ Edge Delta · CTO @ Wope · Co-Founder @ image4.io
traits: context-over-control · TDD · cost-aware · ships things| Where | What shipped |
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| Edge Delta — Staff Software Engineer, Data & Platform | Flink + Kafka + ClickHouse on S3 pipeline ingesting petabytes/day of logs, metrics & traces at sub-minute latency and 99.999% availability. Authored outlier-detection & deploy-fault algorithms in Go/Java/Python. |
| Wope — CTO | Architected a ClickHouse microservices platform (35+ services) processing 25B+ rows/month. Executed a zero-downtime cross-vendor DB migration of billions of rows. Led a 20-person engineering org. |
| image4.io — Technical Co-Founder | Global image-optimization SaaS: edge compute, CDN, C++ image pipeline, .NET Core console & API. |
| Notedu — Founder | Marketplace for lecture notes — 30K monthly users, zero ad spend, organic SEO. |
| Turkish Navy — Software Engineer & Officer | Isolated server fleets, Ada warfare software, CTF-151 ops (UN, Gulf of Aden). |
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Serverless API Gateway
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Zenrise
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Send Fax Pro
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Mailhook.in
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Disposable Check
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Bilsem Kids
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Craft
Microservices · HA design · TDD · Contract tests · Observability · Cost optimization · Event-driven architecture
- serverlessapigateway — ⭐ edge-native API gateway on Cloudflare Workers with dynamic routing & JWT auth.
- disposable-check — free disposable-email detection API.
- cloudflare-logs-to-aws-firehose — stream CF logs into Firehose for ClickHouse/S3 analytics.
- clickhouse-docker — batteries-included local ClickHouse for prototyping.
- CloudflareWorkersExamples — reference patterns for Workers.
- debezium-sql-server-to-elasticsearch — CDC pipeline template.
Orgs: @Image4IO · @4AI-Info-Tech · Cloud Türkiye
Peer-reviewed work on audio scene understanding and multi-modal agents — full list on my Google Scholar profile.
- Scene analysis through auditory event monitoring — DAA '16, ACM → dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3005338.3005343
- Sound source identification for scene analysis — SIU 2015, IEEE → ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7129931
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@irensaltali
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@bricksplusone
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- AWS User Group Ankara — Leader → meetup.com/ankara-aws-user-group
- Cloud Türkiye — Co-Organizer → kommunity.com/cloud-turkiye
- AWS Community Day Turkey — organizing Türkiye's largest AWS community event every year → aws.cloudturkey.io
- AWS Community Builder since 2020 · Cloud & Serverless Turkey co-organiser since 2018






