Deniz Kusefoglu
Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Vercel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDeniz Kusefoglu is a software engineer focused on infrastructure, currently making the web faster at Vercel with a decade of engineering experience. He brings strong cloud-native expertise from prior roles at InfluxData, where he built Kubernetes-based multi-cloud deployment tooling, CI/CD contract testing, and serverless query endpoints. Equally comfortable in frontend and backend work, Deniz previously architected UI platforms and developer-facing features like templates and sample-data flows, and implemented an LSP integration for a domain-specific query language. His background in mathematics and a master's in neuroscience gives him a rigorous, research-informed approach to problem solving and product iteration. Based in San Francisco, he blends pragmatic engineering with developer experience focus to ship scalable systems that help teams move fast.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The Recurse CenterMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Neuroscience, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Neuroscience at Howard Hughes Medical InstituteBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics at University of ChicagoRecurse Center
Github Skills (41)
monitoring10
timeseries-database10
visualization10
dashboard10
telegraf10
time-series10
datastore10
redux10
analytics10
apm10
kapacitor10
go10
rust10
chronograf10
influxdb10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ebb-tide/ebb-tide.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jun 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 5 months
influxdata/influxdb-templates
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
This repo is a collection of dashboard templates used in the InfluxDB UI.
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 months
influxdb
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