Deniz Dogruer
Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Dogruer is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building hardware-enabled public safety solutions as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Squishy Robotics. With a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from UC Berkeley and an MS/MS in Mechanical Engineering, Deniz blends deep technical expertise with pedagogy and product strategy to translate research into field-ready systems. Prior roles span academic research, NSF I-Corps commercialization, and classroom teaching, giving him a rare mix of customer-driven validation, curriculum design, and team development skills. He excels at bridging lab innovations and real-world deployments for emergency response, and regularly leverages hands-on prototyping and user interviews to shape product direction. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Deniz pairs entrepreneurial grit with an educator’s focus on measurable impact—he once ran a bespoke decorative-labels business, underscoring a persistent maker mindset and knack for shipping tangible goods.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Engineering Education, Ph.D. Engineering Education at University of California, BerkeleyM.S. Mechanical Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno
English, Turkish
Github Skills (56)
react8
python8
iot8
arduino-library8
android8
ws8
javascript8
react-native7
home-assistant7
ios7
expo7
typescript7
privacy7
home-automation7
frontend7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Squishy47/Schroeder-All-Pass-Filter
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Squishy47/Circular-Buffer
Dec 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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