Summary
Suat Gönül is a software development engineer and systems architect with 14 years of full‑stack experience building large-scale, event-driven and microservice systems for IoT, smart cities, healthcare and supply‑chain domains. He combines a PhD in computer engineering with hands-on leadership—mentoring teams, driving code, and managing product roadmaps from ideation to market. His work spans distributed data ingestion, real-time anomaly detection, time-series processing, and scalable feature pipelines that feed ML models. Notable achievements include architecting a multi‑tenant smart city platform handling hundreds of thousands of devices and contributing to research efforts that secured ~€30M in grants. An Apache committer and prolific researcher, he has published extensively on data interoperability and personalized systems, bringing academic rigor to production problems. Based in Toronto, he recently transitioned to Amazon after leading engineering and product delivery at SRDC and OpenText.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University
Postgraduate Degree, CloudOps, Postgraduate Degree, CloudOps at York University
English