Gurcan Gercek - Data Engineer

Gurcan Gercek

Data Engineer

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Gurcan Gercek is a Data Engineer in Toronto with 13 years of software experience and eight years focused on Java-based systems, currently building data platforms at Shopify. He blends academic rigor—a PhD-level background in access control for big data—with hands-on engineering across Reactive Kafka microservices, Spark, and key-value datastores like Accumulo. His work spans SQL and NoSQL ecosystems (Postgres, Neo4j, MongoDB) and pragmatic automation in Bash and Python, including CI/CD and deployment orchestration improvements that cut Docker build times and strengthened CVE detection. He has led R&D and teaching on dynamic access control, access-control analytics and text analytics, translating research prototypes into production-capable systems. Comfortable on-call and in cross-functional teams, he’s delivered behavior-change platforms and on-device decision engines while also contributing tools and integrations for e-commerce and security monitoring. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he combines deep systems security research with practical performance wins, from SVG UI optimizations to cluster-scale Spark labs.

13 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor, Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Computer Engineering at Izmir Institute of Technology

PhD Candidate, Computer Science, PhD Candidate, Computer Science at Dalhousie University

Programming languages (1)

HTML

Github contributions (4)

ggercek/image_compare

Aug 2019 - Dec 2024

CLI tool to compare image similarities.

Contributions:5 PRs, 552 pushes, 942 branches in 5 years 4 months

image-compareimage-comparisoncomparisoncli-toolimage-processing

YakindanEgitim/malwarez

Apr 2013 - Jan 2015

Contributions:245 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months

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