Personal Portfolio

Anıl Ege Kara

Backend & Systems Engineer

I build backend systems, telecom integrations, customer-facing digital products, and production-ready web applications.

What I focus on

I currently work at Kuzey Kibris Turkcell, contributing as both Software Engineer and Scrum Master across customer-facing digital systems. My background spans fixed internet platforms, CRM/backend development, production support, and hands-on system transformation under real business pressure.

Laravel application architecture

Telecom and customer-facing digital systems

Agile delivery and Scrum Master facilitation

Monitoring, logs, and production issue ownership

About

A calmer, more readable overview.

I work on backend development with a strong bias toward dependable systems and real operational ownership. My experience includes customer-facing digital systems at Kuzey Kibris Turkcell, full platform rebuilding in fixed internet services, CRM/backend evolution, telecom-related product work, API design, monitoring, logging, and infrastructure-aware engineering where code needs to survive real traffic, real pressure, and real incidents.

Working Style

Practical, steady, and delivery-minded.

I like backend work that stays maintainable after launch.

I care about clear architecture, stable delivery, and real ownership.

I enjoy solving messy, real-world problems without overcomplicating the solution.

Code Footprint

What my GitHub footprint looks like.

This panel summarizes the language spread, code volume, and recurring technology choices across my public repositories. It is less about one project and more about how I tend to build over time.

Explore on Ayanix

Experience

The work behind the portfolio.

My experience is shaped by real delivery environments: telecom systems, fixed internet platforms, CRM/backend development, crisis-response production support, and more recently customer-facing digital products with Scrum ownership.

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell

Software Engineer & Scrum Master - Customer-Facing Digital Systems

Nicosia, Cyprus · Hybrid

Period

January 2025 - Present

1 year 4 months

Moved into a 5-member Agile digital team focused on mobile and web products used directly by customers.

Took on Scrum Master responsibilities while continuing as a hands-on Software Engineer.

Worked on improving Agile flow, team efficiency, collaboration, ceremonies, blocker removal, and delivery quality.

Contributed directly to day-to-day product development with React Native and React.js.

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell

Software Engineer - Fixed Internet Services

Nicosia, Cyprus · Hybrid

Period

May 2022 - January 2025

2 years 9 months

Worked in a 9-member Agile team responsible for fixed internet service platforms.

Helped redesign and rebuild the fixed internet systems from the ground up.

Contributed to architecture decisions, core backend development, and overall restructuring.

Worked extensively with Laravel, React.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Python.

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell

Software Engineer - CRM & Backend Development

Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus · Remote

Period

August 2021 - May 2022

10 months

Transitioned into an engineering role to develop and expand the management panel of the same system.

Expanded the system scope and capabilities nearly 3x while improving architecture and maintainability.

Played a key role in evolving a quickly built solution into a more scalable and sustainable platform.

Focused heavily on Laravel business logic, backend architecture, and long-term system evolution.

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell

Initial Role - Outsourced Solution & Operations Support (Guvende Kal Project)

Nicosia Municipality, Cyprus · Remote

Period

April 2021 - August 2021

5 months

Started on the Guvende Kal mobile application project under tight deadlines and high pressure.

Investigated and resolved live production issues as part of a solution-oriented crisis response team.

Performed direct database-level interventions to stabilize the system when needed.

Gained early real-world experience in debugging under pressure and handling business-critical incidents.

Eastern Mediterranean University

Mobile Application Developer

Famagusta, Cyprus · On-site

Period

September 2019 - March 2020

7 months

Worked part-time as a mobile application developer during university years.

Projects

Selected work.

A small selection from the things I have worked on and can actually show in public.

Professional projects

These are the projects I can comfortably point to from my professional life. The full list is longer, of course, but some in-house work is best left where it belongs: inside the company.

Lifecell Digital

Live Product

Customer-facing ISP platform of Lifecell Digital, established in 2017 within Kuzey Kibris Turkcell for internet service delivery in the TRNC. The product brings together home broadband, Superbox, TV+, billing, package renewal, speed-test, and coverage-check flows in a single digital experience.

Home Broadband Superbox TV+ Bill Payment Coverage Check

Open Website

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell iOS App

App Store Live

Mobile customer app on iOS, supporting self-service flows and digital product experiences used directly by subscribers.

iOS Customer App Digital Services

View on App Store

Kuzey Kibris Turkcell Android App

Google Play Live

Android customer app built around everyday telecom usage, digital account flows, and direct customer touchpoints.

Android Customer App Digital Services

View on Google Play

KKTC Guvende Kal

Archived Public Project

A large-scale public-health system used during the Covid-19 period in the TRNC. What began as a quarantine-tracking product with a mobile app, QR-based onboarding, and electronic wristbands later expanded into a broader operational platform covering incoming tourists, contact cases, and the wider infrastructure flows behind how the country managed the pandemic. My involvement overlaps with my earliest solution-support period and the following phase where I continued developing the related CRM software. It is no longer in active service.

Public Service Mobile App QR Flow Electronic Wristband

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Personal projects

A smaller corner for the things I built on my own and can talk about a little more freely.

Limitra

Live Personal Product

A personal budgeting and spending-limit product focused on clarity, lightweight planning, and practical day-to-day visibility.

Laravel Budgeting Product Design Personal Tool

Open Product

LinkSwing

Live Personal Product

A crawler-driven internal-link and site-topology product that maps page relationships, exposes weak spots, and turns large URL structures into something readable and actionable.

Laravel React Site Crawl SEO Insights

Open Product

Echo Bridge

Live Personal Product

An API-first Laravel project that connects Alexa with real-time financial data. A user can ask for the current GBP exchange rate by voice, the system securely handles the request, resolves the intent, fetches up-to-date data from an external rate service, and returns a response Alexa can read naturally. In practice, it is a clean webhook-based foundation for voice-driven finance use cases.

Laravel Alexa Webhook API Finance Data

Open Product

Ayanix

Live Personal Product

Ayanix reveals what is inside a public GitHub repository. You paste a repository URL, queue an analysis job, run GitHub Linguist against a shallow clone, and explore the resulting language breakdown through a clean, data-first dashboard.

Laravel GitHub GitHub Linguist Repository Analysis

Open Product

ULAK

Ongoing Project

A private notification platform that brings updates from personal applications into one inbox. Ongoing development combines source-specific API integrations, queued notification delivery, and Web Push support for an iPhone Home Screen app.

Laravel React TypeScript PWA Web Push

Open Project

Kazmatik

Ongoing Project

A personal project that brings our friend group’s Minecraft world to life through player statistics, records, and daily progress. A world atlas and handy calculators round out the experience, with more features still taking shape.

Laravel Inertia.js React TypeScript Minecraft

Open Project

Examiner

Ongoing Project

An ongoing project that collects EMU exam schedules and academic calendars from source pages and turns them into structured data. Features include schedule versions, date-change tracking, course search, personal exam lists, and API access.

Laravel Data Collection Change Tracking REST API

Ritmo

A passion project on pause :)

A project I built to help teams run retrospective meetings in one live room, combining anonymous cards, voting, reactions, and action tracking. Taking a little breather for now; I’ll pick it up when inspiration returns :)

Laravel React Inertia.js Laravel Reverb Retrospectives

ODAK

Ongoing Project

A personal Android TV launcher built with Kotlin. It brings together remote-friendly app shortcuts, a cinematic idle screen, live notifications from ULAK, and Tapo smart home controls in one simple TV interface. An ongoing home project that I use and develop on a real TV.

Kotlin Android TV D-pad ULAK / SSE Tapo

Systems

A small systems layer, kept readable.

I still enjoy showing a bit of the systems side: signals, activity, and operational thinking, just without turning the whole page into a dashboard.

ULAK / 24h Notifications

Notifications recorded by ULAK in the last 24 hours.

ULAK · Checked 06:41

ULAK / 24h Accepted Pushes

Pushes accepted by the provider in the last 24 hours; this does not confirm device receipt.

ULAK · Checked 06:41

ULAK / Active Sources

Notification sources currently enabled in ULAK.

ULAK · Checked 06:41

Kazmatik / Players

Total players with recorded statistics; this is not an online player count.

Kazmatik · Data from 08.11 06:40

Kazmatik / Mined Blocks

230,015

Total mined blocks in the players’ current Minecraft counters.

Kazmatik · Data from 08.11 06:40

Kazmatik / Play Hours

694.7

Total play time across current player counters, expressed in hours.

Kazmatik · Data from 08.11 06:40

Recent Logs

A compact view of the latest signals flowing in from the apps tracked by the portfolio.

06:40:14 OK

Kazmatik refreshed its Minecraft statistics.

18:17:06 OK

A ULAK push was accepted by the provider.

18:17:05 INFO

ULAK recorded a new notification.

Active Services

Live dependency and application components currently observed by the portfolio.

ULAK Push Outbox

No pending deliveries

Kazmatik Data Import

Data is fresh

Outside Work

Geek Zone and IMDb corner.

Less about side projects, more about the things I keep returning to for fun: systems-heavy games, automation rabbit holes, and films with a strong point of view.

Geek Zone

Outside work, still happily in the rabbit hole.

The same engineering brain usually follows me outside work too, just in more playful forms.

Strategy games

Factorio, Civilization VI, Frostpunk

Minecraft automation

Redstone logic, farms, planners, and throughput obsession

PS5

Evening cooldown after a day of logs, APIs, and edge cases

IMDb taste

A quiet corner for films with strong atmosphere and memorable systems

Systems-first play

I naturally drift toward games and ideas built on loops, planning, optimization, and clean progression.

Automation curiosity

Minecraft logic, production chains, and small planners are still fun when they stop being work and start being play.

IMDb Corner

Films with atmosphere, control, and intent.

A small taste profile drawn from 202 rated titles in my IMDb archive. My average rating sits around 7.1, so this corner tends to keep the films and shows that actually left a mark.

What the archive leans toward

Drama leads clearly, followed by adventure, comedy, action, and thriller.

Format bias

149 of the 202 rated titles are films, so cinema still outweighs series in the long run.

What gets my highest scores

Emotionally heavy, large-scale but controlled storytelling with strong worlds, clean tension, and memorable character work.

IMDb Taste Widget

A few reliable favorites.

Oppenheimer

2023

/ 10

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

/ 10

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2003

/ 10

12 Years a Slave

2013

/ 10

Offline Mode

When I'm offline: building fires, not systems.

Camping, a quiet garden, warm lights, and a little distance from dashboards help reset the mind behind the infrastructure.

Resets

Camping, quiet evenings, long walks, and time away from screens

Usually helps

Space to slow down, think clearly, and come back with better judgment

Why it matters

Good engineering is easier when the mind has room to recover

Contact

Open to good conversations.

If the work feels aligned, or you just think we would build well together, feel free to reach out.

anilegekara@gmail.com

Best for direct conversations, collaboration ideas, or opportunities.

GitHub

github.com/anilegekara

A better place to see code, experiments, and the technical side of my work.

linkedin.com/in/anilegekara

Best for professional context, background, and staying in touch.