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Deniz Durmus

@denizdurmus

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Senior Software Architect and Tech Lead driving scalable cloud-native systems.

Thailand

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior technical leadership roles building scalable, cloud-native systems and AI-integrated platforms at ethical, growth-oriented companies with strong engineering culture and opportunities to mentor and scale teams.

I am a Senior Software Architect and Tech Lead with 15+ years of international experience designing and scaling high-availability backend systems, modernizing monoliths into massive-scale microservices, and integrating AI to deliver real-time operational insights. I have led engineering teams at top-tier firms, reduced processing runtimes by over 80%, and built LLM-integrated analytics and consumer AI products end-to-end.

I specialize in cloud-native development, event-driven architectures, and data consistency for high-concurrency environments across sectors including Logistics, HealthTech, Agritech, and E-commerce. I prioritize ethical, socially responsible companies and bring hands-on leadership in system architecture, CI/CD optimization, and technical onboarding to accelerate team impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Staff Software Engineer

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Agoda

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Spearheaded an architectural overhaul of the core booking simulation platform, reducing simulation processing runtimes by >80% and accelerating CI/CD; architected an LLM-integrated analysis engine to automate data consistency checks and deliver real-time operational insights.

Scala Kotlin Hadoop Kafka LLM Event Driven Architecture System Architecture CI CD

Independent AI Solutions Architect

Independent Builder

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 3 months)

Architected, deployed, and maintained LLM-integrated consumer web apps and Micro-SaaS products, and built browser extensions and RPA tools to automate client-side workflows and enhance content accessibility.

LLM NLP Prompt Engineering Web Development Chrome extensions RPA Database Design Full Stack

Head of Engineering

Tiket.com

May 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 4 months)

Directed engineering strategy for payments and order management, architecting scalable systems to securely process large daily transaction volumes and enforcing architectural standards to accelerate feature delivery.

Golang Postgres GCP NodeJS Payments Architecture Scalability Team Leadership Security & Compliance

Engineering Manager

Zuellig Pharma

Sep 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)

Led migration of legacy monoliths to microservices for healthcare and pharma logistics, transitioned the engineering organization from Waterfall to Agile, and established data infrastructure for analytics and reporting.

Enterprise Architecture Microservices Agile Transformation Data Infrastructure Migration Leadership

Senior Software Engineer

Mighty Bear Games

Nov 2019 - Sep 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Researched and prototyped low-latency, high-throughput backend systems for global multiplayer mobile games and implemented CI/CD optimizations to reduce deployment friction.

Java C Redis DynamoDB AWS NodeJS CI CD

Solution Architect

InfraDigital Nusantara

Aug 2020 - Nov 2020 (3 months)

Conducted a technical architectural audit of student management and payment platforms and designed automated large-scale data ingestion and web-scraping pipelines to improve scalability.

Golang Python PostgreSQL Heroku Data Ingestion Web Scraping Scalability

Software Engineer

The NetCircle

Mar 2011 - Nov 2019 (8 years 8 months)

Architected and maintained massive-scale backend infrastructure for search, feeds, and payments supporting >8,000,000 active users; led modernization from monolith to microservices and implemented fraud detection pipelines.