Summary
Ahmet Kucuk is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed backend systems, currently working at Datadog in New York. He spent six formative years at HyperScience designing on-site ML training, distributed data pipelines, and human-in-the-loop workflows for enterprise document processing, helping the company scale from ~50 to 250+ employees. More recently he contributed to Superblocks before joining Datadog, bringing deep expertise in performance optimization, real-time dashboards, and API design. His academic work includes published computer-vision research on solar activity and a Postgres/PostGIS plugin for spatio-temporal data, reflecting a strong foundation in both research and production engineering. Comfortable across languages and domains—from Android/IoT and Scala web apps to large-scale ML systems—he blends pragmatic engineering with a knack for turning research ideas into reliable, customer-facing features.
11 years of coding experience