Deniz Kennedy
MTS 1, Software Engineer at PayPal
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Kennedy is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems for companies like PayPal and Klarna, currently focused on POS order and compliance at PayPal. He combines a strong academic background (MSc in Computational Science and Computational Mathematics) with hands-on ownership of architecture, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GitHub Actions) to deliver scalable, compliant merchant services used across multiple countries. Deniz mentors junior engineers, runs on-call and crisis management, and applies SOLID principles to long-term maintainability and performance optimization. Fluent across Java, Kotlin, Python and C++, he has delivered everything from identity automation and image-search features to low-level SDK integrations for camera stabilization. Notably, he bridges deep technical rigor from physics and mathematics with pragmatic DevOps practices to simplify complex pain points in large, international systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Özel Yüce Fen LisesiMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Physics at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityAdditional Courses, Computer Science, Additional Courses, Computer Science at Uppsala University
Turkish, English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
apl6
languagetool6
equivalent6
relational-algebra6
code-golf6
benchmark5
benchmarking5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dekespo/remoteCompuer
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:44 PRs, 29 pushes, 49 branches in 1 year 4 months
dekespo/aoe2_ai_scripts
Nov 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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