Kaan Katırcıoğlu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaan Katırcıoğlu is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with eight years of engineering experience and a dual academic background in Computer Science and Physics from the University of Virginia (3.97 GPA). He builds data acquisition infrastructure for Search/Gemini and brings a research-driven approach, having developed exponential-improvement algorithms for n-omino puzzles and simulation environments for ML agents tackling real-world flood prevention. Kaan contributes to open-source testing tooling—enhancing the terraform-compliance CLI with improved test infrastructure, regex matching, and tag-based test control—demonstrating attention to reliability and security in automation. He has taught algorithms and linear algebra, translating theoretical tools into practical solutions and clear mentorship. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous academic training, production-grade backend engineering, and a knack for squeezing efficiency out of complex systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (BS) and Physics (BA), 3.97, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science (BS) and Physics (BA), 3.97 at University of Virginia
Github Skills (10)
terraformer10
test-framework10
python10
terraform10
bdd10
testing10
infrastructure9
compliance9
hashicorp8
regex7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
terraform-compliance/cli
Jun 2020 - Aug 2021
a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform.
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Engineer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 70 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Kaan primarily contributed to the `terraform-compliance/cli` project by enhancing the test framework. Their commits show a focus on improving testing infrastructure, addressing test failures, and adding new test functionality. Key contributions include fixing test outputs, implementing test skipping based on tags, and introducing new features for regular expression matching in tests. They also made minor code and documentation improvements.
testing-frameworkbdd-styletestingsecuritybdd
Kudbettin/terraform-compliance
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
a lightweight, security focused, BDD test framework against terraform.
Contributions:19 PRs, 124 pushes, 67 branches in 10 months
testingsecuritybddtest-frameworkfocused
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