Emrah Seker

“Emrah is a brilliant software engineer with a very keen sense of good architecture, and a very resourceful problem solver. We worked together at Box, where Emrah was instrumental in advocating for adoption of a workflow orchestration engine to address scale problems in Box large folder operations infrastructure, eventually leading the adoption of Cadence. Most importantly, he complements those rare skills with great organizational intelligence and being really easy to get along with”

“I have worked with Emrah for the past four years in his role as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Box. He is an excellent engineer with extensive knowledge of design patterns and architecture best practices, and he is very collaborative and productive. Emrah has always set a high bar for himself and his team, and strives to uplift Box Engineering by improving software design and engineering best practices. I have always found my interactions with Emrah to be very valuable in terms of the ideas he brings to our discussions, and his ability to act as a sounding board to improve my own understanding of a design topic. Emrah consistently demonstrates excellence in his own work, and exemplifies the thoughtful engineering leadership behaviors we encourage within the company. ”

“Emrah was my mentor for my summer internship at Microsoft. He was eager help me get started, helping me make meaningful progress early. He encouraged me to move out of my comfort zone, helping me get better results more quickly. Even if he was busy he was willing to take the time to help whenever I had an issue, and he would make sure that the problem was fixed or I understood the problem before returning to his work.”

“I took couple of classes with Emrah in university. He is very hardworking person that he can successfully complete many tasks in same day. I remember that he was taking required last year classes for his major, working on his senior project with a group of people, taking extra classes from computer engineering master courses, working as part time in an enterprise company, and so on. Best part is that he was so successful on everything. Emrah is very smart and passionate for his job that he can ramp up in a short time, and become very successful contributor.”

“Emrah was a pleasure to work with. He has an amazing grasp of technology and implementation. In two years, we achieved a great improvement in test team with his positive energy, innovative ideas and technical skills. I strongly believe that he is one of the geek guys in software industry.”