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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

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

I keep track of the books I read on Goodreads. I do hope to migrate these to my blog when I have the time and write short reviews.

I'm currently reading

Advanced Portfolio Management: A Quant's Guide for Fundamental Investors
Corporate Finance for Dummies
Algorithmic trading

Watching

1883
The Pitt S02
24 Season 5

Watching queue

Scrubs (reboot)
Malcolm in the middle (reboot)
Hail mary project
For All Mankind, Season 5

Living

Sammamish, WA

Computing

macOS Tahoe + iOS 26 daily drivers with Ubuntu focal on homelab servers
Productivity: Calendar App, Things3, Obsidian
Programming: Xcode, Terminal, git
Services: gitea, mastodon, plex, audiobookshelf, minio, jupyter, immich, jenkins, peertube, pocketbase, Prefect

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)
bloggen -- A static site generator (also powering these pages)
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

Week Notes

2026 W08 | W09 | W10 | W11 | W12 | W13

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