Kadiray Karakaya
Research Assistant at Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKadiray Karakaya is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate in computer science at Paderborn University with about 10 years of experience bridging applied research and production systems. As a research assistant at Heinz Nixdorf Institut he specializes in program analysis and leads SootUp, an open-source project that extends the Soot analysis framework, demonstrating hands-on tooling and community leadership. His background includes industry roles at Turkish Airlines and a recent applied scientist stint at AWS, giving him practical experience deploying analytics and research prototypes in large-scale environments. He combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering to turn static-analysis research into usable developer tools. Based in Paderborn, Germany, he routinely moves between publishing research and shipping prototypes that integrate into developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Paderborn UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Technische Universität ChemnitzBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at Yildiz Technical University
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (33)
static-code-analysis10
static-analysis10
architecture10
abstract-interpretation10
soot10
java10
source-code-analysis10
call-graph10
android10
bytecode10
optimization10
program-analysis10
java-libraries6
composition6
testing5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kadirayk/API-Gateway-2go
Oct 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 10 months
api-gatewayapigolanggatewayminimal-api
kadirayk/ANIE
Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:52 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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