Now page
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 ) 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.
I like to program computers.
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
- Apple -- App Intents Framework and developer tooling
- Liquidate -- A stock market / economy simulation game
Productivity framework
Learning
- Quantitative trading
- Corporate Finance
Listening
- Metalcore / Melodic death metal 🤘🏼
- Audible: Horus rising - Dan Abnett
Reading
- Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors
- Corporate Finance for Dummies
- Algorithmic trading
- My Goodreads profile
Watching
- A knight of the seven kingdoms
- The Pitt S02
Living
Computing
- macOS Tahoe + iOS 26 daily drivers with Ubuntu focal on homelab servers
- Productivity: Calendar App, Things3, Notes app
- Programming: Xcode, Terminal, git
- Ops: Jenkins, gitea
- Services: gitea, mastodon, plex, audiobookshelf, minio, jupyter, immich, jenkins, peertube, pocketbase
Extra curricular
Week Notes
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Unknown publish date.
~ 2026-03-21
Generated on 21 Mar 2026 at 2:16 PM
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