Deniz Kennedy
MTS 1, Software Engineer at PayPal
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Kennedy is a senior backend engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-throughput distributed systems for companies like PayPal and Klarna, currently focused on POS order and compliance at PayPal. He combines a strong academic background (MSc in Computational Science and Computational Mathematics) with hands-on ownership of architecture, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GitHub Actions) to deliver scalable, compliant merchant services used across multiple countries. Deniz mentors junior engineers, runs on-call and crisis management, and applies SOLID principles to long-term maintainability and performance optimization. Fluent across Java, Kotlin, Python and C++, he has delivered everything from identity automation and image-search features to low-level SDK integrations for camera stabilization. Notably, he bridges deep technical rigor from physics and mathematics with pragmatic DevOps practices to simplify complex pain points in large, international systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Özel Yüce Fen LisesiMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) (Hons), Physics at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityAdditional Courses, Computer Science, Additional Courses, Computer Science at Uppsala University
Turkish, English, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (7)
equivalent9
code-golf7
relational-algebra7
apl7
languagetool6
benchmarking5
benchmark4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dekespo/remoteCompuer
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:44 PRs, 29 pushes, 49 branches in 1 year 4 months
dekespo/dekespo_ai_sdk_py
Dec 2017 - Jun 2026
My pet project about AI SDK in python
Contributions:188 PRs, 206 pushes, 186 branches in 8 years 7 months
pythonmachine-learningai-sdksdk
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