Summary
Ilke Cugu is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with nine years of experience building resilient, high-performance backend systems for cloud and enterprise products. She has driven critical reliability and automation work at Microsoft Azure (Cosmos DB/Postgres & MongoDB vCore), cutting provisioning times from minutes to seconds, leading outage-resiliency initiatives, and automating fleet security updates. Her background spans research-grade computer vision and ML from a stint as a research scientist to industrial-scale engineering at Siemens, where she introduced deep learning for predictive maintenance and delivered large I/O and visualization speedups. Comfortable across Ruby, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native tooling, she combines academic rigor with hands-on incident response and customer-focused fixes. A practical problem-solver, she has repeatedly turned operational pain points into measurable platform improvements and won multiple internal awards for security and reliability work.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Atatürk Anadolu Lisesi
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish