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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) 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

• 2026 W08 | W09 | W10 | W11 | W12| W13 | W14 | W15 | W16

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