File no. 001 Personnel record

Portrait of Melike Gundogdu

Melike Gundogdu

Software developer · Antalya

I build software for a living. Before that I spent six years as an accountant, and I still count things for fun.

Now

Developer at Teamtailor, a recruitment platform used by companies around the world. I work across the stack in Ruby on Rails and Ember.

Before

Six years of spreadsheets, reconciliations and month-end closes. Then I quit to join a nine-week web development bootcamp at Le Wagon in Bali.

Accounting is boring.

Me, after six years of checking

After the bootcamp I joined Paraşüt as a developer. They make accounting software, so the spreadsheets followed me. This time I was building them.

Early projects

From my first months as a developer, built in small teams at Le Wagon.

Safeblok logo

Safeblok

A web app for foreigners living in Bali to report harmful incidents by pinning them on a map.

  • Rails
  • JavaScript
  • Mapbox
  • Bootstrap
  • Heroku
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Active Potato mascot

Active Potato

A mobile-first web app for finding the nearest group sports activity in seconds, with live chat.

  • Rails
  • Stimulus
  • Action Cable
  • Mapbox
  • Heroku
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Toolbox

  1. Backend Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Sidekiq
  2. Frontend Ember, TypeScript, Hotwire, Tailwind CSS
  3. Habits Small pull requests, feature flags, safe migrations

Off the clock

Travel log

  1. Stockholm November 2025 – July 2026

    Almost eight months in Stockholm, and the day Mälaren froze over.

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