salimcan venedik
Staff Software Engineer
Building messaging infrastructure at scale. Leading AI-powered product teams.
About
I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Insider, a $2B+ martech platform serving 1,200+ enterprise customers including Samsung, Adidas, and Unilever. I lead the Messaging Products and AI Chatbot engineering teams, orchestrating infrastructure that delivers billions of messages monthly across WhatsApp, SMS, and Web Push channels. Previously, I built custom business automation tools for education and legal sectors. I'm passionate about solving complex distributed systems problems and turning manual processes into AI-native workflows.
Experience
Where I've worked
Insider
$2B+ martech platform · 1,200+ enterprise customers · Shareholder
WhatsApp Business API, SMS, Web Push at scale.
Scaled web push 1.3B → 24B. Built WhatsApp API from zero.
Built core messaging infra — multi-provider, rate limiting, failover.
ideaKup Web Technologies
Workflow automation, e-commerce, file tracking. Full-stack.
Turkish State Folk Dance Ensemble
International stages: Turkmenistan, Tunisia, Dubai, Morocco.
Benarti Software Solutions
Projects
Impact & work
AI Code Review System
Built an AI-powered code review system deployed across 266 repositories in a 500+ engineer organization. Intelligent diff analysis, breaking change detection, multi-language support, and security scanning. Runs on every PR automatically.
~$0.01/review · 3-5 critical issues per 100 PRsMessaging Platform at Scale
Designed and scaled the entire messaging infrastructure — multi-provider architectures, rate limiting, failover systems — serving billions of monthly messages for global brands.
1.3B → 24B monthly notificationsAI Chatbot Product
Led the engineering team building a conversational AI product from concept to production.
Concept → ProductionWritings
Thoughts on education
Essays on teaching methodology, communication, and education — written during my years at Hacettepe University's Faculty of Education.
Real Communication & Respect for People
On building genuine connections through respect and empathy.
2015What Makes a Good Teacher?
The qualities that separate great educators from the rest.
201521st Century Students & Teachers
How education must evolve for the modern generation.
Speaking & Community
Sharing knowledge
- Tech talks at 5 universities (Gazi, Bilkent, Hacettepe, METU) — AWS Architecture & Scaling Systems (2019–2023)
- PHP Conference Speaker (2020)
- "The Art of Giving Feedback" — Soft skills seminar for university students (2022)
- Published: CloudWatch Monitoring & Alerting Best Practices — Insider Engineering Blog
- AWS Certifications: AWS Jam Architecting, Advanced Architecting on AWS
- Mentorink Mentor (2025)
Beyond code: Former national folk dancer 🇹🇷 · Scuba diver · Oud player · Home cook