Doruk Korkmaz
Engineering Manager at Pinterest.
Six years at Pinterest. Intern → SWE → Tech Lead → EM. Building products that reach hundreds of millions of people, and teams that are set up to do their best work.
Highlights
- —Leading Pinterest's Ads Reporting Interfaces team, owning 9 advertiser-facing surfaces including Campaign Manager, Ad Account Overview, Custom Reports, Analytics, and Pin Stats
- —Delivered 80+ projects as Tech Lead for the same team, shipping features used by millions of advertisers worldwide
- —Built two internal tools used across Pinterest: Metro, an integration test manager, and a commit tracker showing pipeline progress, each used by 500+ engineers monthly
- —Published an ACM paper on geographic district allocation via stable graph matching
- —Co-founded TripTrop, a travel app that built personalized multi-day itineraries, from idea to shipped product
Recent Writing
- My Travel Packing System + Best Accessories
After 25 countries, I've stopped forgetting things, stopped overpaying, and stopped wasting vacation time on problems that shouldn't exist. Here's the exact packing system and gear I use.
- How I Plan Every Trip Itinerary (My Exact System)
After 25 countries and two international trips a year, here's the exact system I use to build itineraries that actually work.
- How I Find Flights & Book Hotels (Tips from 25 Countries)
After 25 countries and two international trips a year, here's the exact system I use to find cheap flights and get real value out of hotel bookings.