Now
Summary Keywords
- Software Engineering (Developer Tooling, CI/CD, App Intents)
- Quantitative Finance (Algorithmic Trading, Financial Modeling)
- Self-Hosting & Homelab (Infrastructure Automation, Media Servers)
- Game Development (Strategy Simulations, Liquidate)
- Personal Productivity (Knowledge Management, Obsidian)
- Interests (Warhammer 40k, Metalcore Music)
- Location (Sammamish, Washington)
Hi!
I'm Deniz (say hi) and I like to program computers. I work as a software engineer and have had the chance to build stuff for amazing companies such as this, this and this and a few others.
This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. Its aim is to provide you with a very high level overview of what's going on in my life. It's hosted at my home office

Working
How I get things done with my productivity framework
- Apple -- App Intents Framework and developer tooling
- PolyGate -- A data aggregator running on Prefect
Learning
- Quantitative trading
- Corporate Finance
Listening
- Metalcore 🤘🎸
- Audible: False Gods - Graham McNeill
Listening queue
- Galaxy in Flames
- Honor of the queen
Reading
List of Finished books
Currently Reading
- Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors
- Corporate Finance for Dummies
- Algorithmic trading
- Introduction to Stochastic Calculus with Applications
Watching
- The Pitt S02
- 24 Season 5
Watching queue
- Scrubs (reboot)
- Malcolm in the middle (reboot)
- For All Mankind, Season 5
- Black Mirror
- Mayor of Kingstown
Living
- Sammamish, WA
Computing
- macOS Tahoe + iOS 26 daily drivers with Ubuntu focal on homelab servers
- Hardware
- Productivity: Calendar App, Things3, Obsidian
- Programming: Xcode, Terminal, git
- Services: gitea, mastodon, plex, audiobookshelf, minio, jupyter, immich, jenkins, peertube, pocketbase, Prefect
Week notes
Extra curricular
- Home studio recording
- MechTek -- Top down Mech game
- Carbine2 -- Top down shooter game in HTML5
- jschess -- A chess engine in Javascript (~1500 ELO)
- SideMark -- A Markdown parser for Swift
- Elephas -- A Mastodon client for macOS
- KeyPulse -- A keystroke and mouse click counter
- C4I:MC -- A Mech strategy/simulation game
- RetroTrade -- A back testing framework for trading
- Liquidate -- A market simulation game
- PolyGate -- A data aggregator running on Prefect
- TradeBrain -- A set of financial models for trading
- IMG2FEN -- Converts a screenshot of a chessboard to a FEN string