Mert Hocanin
Principal Data Lake Solutions Engineer Manager, Lake Formation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMert Hocanin is a Principal Data Lake Solutions Engineer Manager at AWS with eight years of focused experience architecting and operationalizing large-scale data lakes and analytics on EMR, Athena, Glue and Lake Formation. He leads teams that drive customer outcomes, authors reference architectures and whitepapers, and channels voice-of-the-customer into product roadmaps while still contributing code-level fixes to core services. Prior to his current leadership roles he built high-throughput, low-latency systems at Amazon and Bloomberg, including terabyte-scale precompute pipelines and a ticks-per-second market data engine. Based in New York, he combines deep hands-on engineering with customer-facing advocacy and recruitment for EMR service engineering across major AWS hubs. Notably, he balances strategic roadmap influence with the practical satisfaction of debugging and shipping improvements to foundational analytics services.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Math Computer Science, Bachelor's of Math Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Turkish
Github Skills (54)
trino10
sql-query10
spark10
databases10
big-data10
hadoop10
java10
hive10
amazon-emr10
sql10
presto10
database10
analytics9
jdbc9
indexing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-lakeformation-best-practices
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:7 reviews, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
hocanint-amzn/amazon-emr-user-role-mapper
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Application to securely map users on a multi tenant Amazon EMR cluster to different IAM Roles and then assume the mapped Role.
Contributions:11 pushes, 19 branches in 7 months
tenantemratsinfrastructure-managementiam
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