Ahmet Kucuk
Software Engineer at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmet 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
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Bilkent UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia State UniversityBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Uppsala University
Turkish, İngilizce
Github Skills (70)
python10
django-framework10
deep-learning10
django10
tensorflow10
orm10
web-framework10
machine-learning9
detector9
docker-compose8
multibox8
neural-network8
grove8
python-lib8
pypi8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ahmetkucuk/query-solar-database
Nov 2015 - Jun 2018
Java project for creating PostgreSql based solar database.
Contributions:110 commits, 6 PRs, 98 pushes in 2 years 6 months
solarjava-projectdatabasepostgresqljava
ahmetkucuk/IntegratedSolarDatabase
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
golangapidatabase-apisolardatabase
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