Ramazan Polat

That first system gathered credit-card and bank-transfer records and let analysts trace connections and suspicious transactions. Queries that had taken hours on the old platform came back in seconds. ClickHouse has been in almost every project of mine since.

I've recommended and implemented it for startups — wope.com and hockeystack.com among them — and helped government agencies build large ClickHouse clusters. I've helped users around the world for free, and spoken at the Istanbul and Ankara meetups.

I also spent six years as an assistant professor of computer science. That taught me not just what to teach, but how. This site is where the history, the courses and the field notes come together.