Kadiray Karakaya
Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKadiray Karakaya is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate in program analysis with 11 years of industry and academic experience, currently a Research Assistant at Heinz Nixdorf Institut. He leads SootUp on GitHub, blending deep static-analysis research with practical tooling that bridges academia and real-world codebases. His background includes production engineering and analytics roles at Turkish Airlines and a stint as an Applied Scientist at AWS, giving him a strong track record of moving research into applied systems. Based in Paderborn, Germany, he combines rigorous PhD training with hands-on software delivery across both enterprise and research environments. Notably, his profile reflects a rare mix of long-term industrial experience alongside ongoing contributions to program-analysis tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Paderborn UniversityExchange Student Computer Science, Exchange Student Computer Science at Technische Universität ChemnitzBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi
Turkish, English, German
Github Skills (32)
static-code-analysis10
static-analysis10
architecture10
abstract-interpretation10
soot10
java10
source-code-analysis10
android10
bytecode10
callgraph10
optimization10
program-analysis10
feature-extraction8
pddl7
java-libraries7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
secure-software-engineering/SootFX
Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
A Static Code Feature Extraction Tool for Java and Android
Contributions:24 commits, 7 pushes in 7 months
androidfeature-extractionjava
kadirayk/PROSECO
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
PRototype based SErvice COmposition Framework
Contributions:148 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
compositionservice-basedprototypescalabilitysaga-pattern
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