Deniz Sokmen
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDeniz Sokmen is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in London with 12 years of experience building high-performance, low-level systems at scale. He has driven core database and query engine work at SAP (HANA VORA) and continues to tackle latency-sensitive, distributed problems as a senior engineer at Amazon. Skilled in C++ and runtime code generation, he focuses on optimization, multi-version concurrency control, and making in-memory and disk-based stores both fast and ACID-compliant. Known for seeking challenging problems, Deniz combines deep systems instincts with a practical focus on production-readiness and measurable performance gains. An academic high performer (B.Sc. Computer Science, 3.77), he brings a blend of rigorous engineering and continual self-improvement to complex backend systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.77, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, 3.77 at Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Turkish, English
Github Skills (45)
ldap10
rtsp10
ssl10
imap10
user-agent10
sgx10
mqtt10
pthread10
http10
rtmp10
websocket10
ftp10
wget10
libcurl10
smtp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
denizsokmen/cvProjects
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
denizsokmen/UltimaXNA
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 13 pushes in 1 day
dotnetultimac-sharpcsharpultima-online
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