Hi, I am Ahmet!
I'm a software engineer at Aselsan, and I'm studying financial mathematics at METU. I spend most of my spare cycles on high-frequency trading, quantitative research and market making — market microstructure, execution, and the systems fast enough to act on both.
Work History
I joined Aselsan as a software engineer in July, after leaving Datateam.I worked at Datateam on a data warehouse consolidation over 30B+ records — custom ETL tooling, Kubernetes buildout and query tuning that took our slowest reports from 45 minutes down to 1. I also designed an OCR document pipeline handling 100K+ records a day, and a dynamic API platform on top of the warehouse with per-tenant permissions, rate limiting and OpenAPI docs.I worked at Collecteurs on an NFT marketplace for digital art, integrating on-chain settlement into the trading flow.I founded Buildchain, the largest Web3 developer community in Türkiye — a podcast, workshops and partnerships with BNB Chain and Chainlink.
Education
Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) — M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics, started this September.Ege University — B.Sc. in Computer Science. My thesis implemented an Error State Extended Kalman Filter fusing GNSS, LiDAR and IMU data for vehicle localization.
Recent on my blog
What Role Do Simulations Play in Modern Research?Dev Logs - 2: ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALIDDev Logs - 1: Race Condition, DeepCopy and SelectHow to Monitor an On-Prem Kubernetes Cluster with Prometheus and Grafana (Without Helm)Scaling ClickHouse on a Kubernetes Cluster with Sharding and ReplicationCreating a Neural Network From ScratchHow Does a Machine Learn?How to Set Up an On-Prem HA Cluster Setup with Keepalived and MetalLB
Projects
Things I built to answer a question I had, mostly about markets and the data behind them:
- last-pumpMomentum-exhaustion scanner over 2,200+ Binance Futures pairs. source
- makroturkiyeTurkish central bank (EVDS) macro data, visualized as a treemap. source
- codefossilsFinds abandoned GitHub repositories worth reviving, and scores them.
Contact
The best way to reach me is on LinkedIn, and my code lives on GitHub.