Puente Global — Engineering Team

Profiles of the engineers available to augment your development team. A distributed team across the UK, Canada, and Türkiye with strong US-East overlap. Names are given as first names; full CVs and references available on request.

Confidential

Ali

Lead Engineer
Timezone
UTC+3 · overlaps US East mornings
Experience
15+ years
Languages
Django / PythonReact NativeTypeScriptPostgreSQL / PostGIS
Specialties
Mobile-first delivery, technical leadership, geospatial systems, REST APIs, system architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS ECS, Keycloak, Redis)
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: rebuilt a production music app's player on a play-first architecture, cutting time-to-playback from ~5 seconds to ~200ms (React Native / Expo); built a real-time live chat for the companion web player (~2,600 lines: Firebase Auth token bridge, authorized Firestore streaming, responsive layout) and localized it into Turkish, English, and Spanish; architected multi-tenant Moodle LMS infrastructure on AWS as code (OpenTofu + Ansible, vault-locked backups, WAF, CloudWatch alerting). The team's most exacting code reviewer.

Joel

Senior DevOps Engineer
Timezone
UTC+8
Experience
15+ years
Languages
AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM)LinuxPython / DjangoTypeScript
Specialties
Mission-critical infrastructure, reliability and scaling, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring & alerting, backup & disaster recovery, component-library engineering (Storybook, private NPM)
Spoken
English
Selected work: owns the GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and an automated pull-request review workflow across Puente's mobile and web repositories; iOS/Android release engineering through Expo EAS (automatic build versioning, routine TestFlight releases); aligned a shared design-system component across 60 files including a Relay GraphQL client audit; extracted a standalone, fully tested users module from a production Django backend and wrote the tooling for a seven-repository platform migration. Open-source Django contributor.

Charles

Product Lead · Solutions Architect
Timezone
Eastern Time (UTC−5 / UTC−4 DST)
Experience
25+ years
Languages
React / Next.jsCloud-native architectureCI/CD
Specialties
Product strategy, architecture, discovery-to-delivery leadership, integrations, technical scoping and estimation
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: turns client goals into clear, buildable scope: shapes requirements, tracks decisions, and coordinates delivery on Puente's e-reader modernization; hands-on engineering including a Python data service (Spotify + Tavily APIs, scoring engine, unit and integration tests); music-catalog schema design with logical deletion, indexing, and industry identifiers (UPC, ISRC).

Derek

Front-End Developer
Timezone
Eastern Time (UTC−5 / UTC−4 DST)
Experience
Mid-level
Languages
ReactNext.js / RemixStorybookChromatic
Specialties
User-facing application development, UI performance, third-party API & OAuth/SMTP integrations, mobile (React Native / Expo)
Spoken
English
Selected work: built Puente's outreach orchestration platform end-to-end (admin surfaces, rollup metrics endpoints, hardened server-to-server auth, multi-provider mailbox onboarding); mobile feature work on a music-streaming client's app.

Hakan

Back-End Developer
Timezone
UTC+3 · overlaps US East mornings
Experience
Mid-level
Languages
Django / PythonPostgreSQLAWSSentry
Specialties
API development, backend reliability, web platform builds, browser-extension development, AI-assisted site generation
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: built an AI-powered website platform for nonprofit organizations; web player and dashboard work for a music-streaming client; LinkedIn outreach automation engine (Chrome MV3); e-signature workflow research.

Filip

Back-End & DevOps Engineer
Timezone
UTC+3 · overlaps US East mornings
Experience
Mid-level
Languages
Django / PythonPostgreSQLDocker / KubernetesGitHub Actions
Specialties
Backend development, DevOps automation, CI/CD pipelines, modern web apps (Next.js + Supabase), LMS (Moodle) engineering
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: leading the custom web-app rebuild of a nonprofit's field tool (Next.js + Supabase + Vercel, replacing AppSheet); Moodle LMS workstream; frontend prototyping and UI overhauls.

Acar

QA & Low-Code Developer
Timezone
UTC+3 · overlaps US East mornings
Languages
Airtable / AppSheetJiraPostmanGit / Sentry
Specialties
Systems QA, internal tools, workflow automation, AI-assisted development workflows
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: verifies Puente's mobile builds (TestFlight / Google Play) before every release; web-player feature work for a music-streaming client; AI-first rebuilds of live client projects using Claude-based workflows.

Kyle

Senior UI/UX Designer
Timezone
UTC+3 · overlaps US East mornings
Experience
10+ years
Languages
FigmaDesign systemsMobile designWeb design
Specialties
Product UI/UX, scalable design systems, mobile & web design
Spoken
Turkish, English
Selected work: product design across Puente's client portfolio, including website builds and design-system work feeding the shared component library used by engineering.