<ul><li>Created rapid iterative prototypes for a new application to enable users to set up cross-product integrations more efficiently via a self-service interface, reducing friction and reliance on Customer Success team.</li><li>Shipped five new additions to the React shared component library (SCL) alongside two bugfixes.</li><li>Collaborated with cross-team developers to evangelize adoption of the SCL in legacy products, to standardize look &amp; feel across products.</li></ul>

Senior Front-End Developer

<ul><li>Completed an AI/LLM certification, &quot;Generative AI with Large Language Models&quot; by DeepLearning.AI &amp; AWS.</li><li>Created a hybrid business specializing in pet and plant care, strengthened planning, organization, client relationship management skills, and drove direct bookings through word of mouth.</li><li>Built a real-time text &amp; voice chat application as a privacy-first alternative to Discord, with the assistance of Claude Code (Sonnet 4.6 &amp; Opus 4.6) to accelerate feature implementation and debugging.</li></ul>

Professional Development/Self-Employed/Business Owner

<ul><li>As the Site Reliability Engineer, I analyzed the build/release pipeline and corresponding codebases to find areas to introduce process controls and efficiency improvements, enhancing the stability &amp; timeliness of release deliveries to stakeholders.</li><li>Helped create, document, &amp; maintain a stable E2E build/release process across our entire tech stack, built upon a serverless microservice architecture; I then executed build/releases as requested by Web Dev team on both a scheduled and ad hoc basis for <a href="http://risecannabis.com/">risecannabis.com</a></li></ul>

Senior Full Stack Developer (SRE)

<ul><li>Contributed to planning &amp; execution of a major tech stack migration from static WordPress site to a headless CMS rendered by a modern NextJS + React frontend, as well as a significant frontend redesign in parallel to the tail end of migration.</li><li>Driving iterative improvements to SEO value, accessibility rating, user experience, and more by scoping out key bodies of work, collaborating with leadership to plan/distribute work, thoughtfully reviewing developers’ pull requests, and contributing code.for <a href="http://risecannabis.com/">risecannabis.com</a></li></ul>

Senior Full Stack Developer

Joined the eCommerce Development team to work on building robust eCommerce solutions for the corporate cannabis space: • Helped lead migration of a costly, less-reliable existing infrastructure to a serverless microservice paradigm, alongside a new frontend design refresh. • Helping define engineering best practices, expand internal documentation, &amp; establish a healthy development culture/workflow. • Collaborating with offshore development team to plan, review, &amp; approve implementation of frontend features, fixes, &amp; changes to ensure engineering security &amp; general best practices are adhered to. • Implemented new backend integrations to drive additional revenue through existing CRM infrastructure, powered by serverless microservice implementations (see first bullet).

Full Stack Developer

<ul><li>Contributed to development of a now open-sourced authorization &amp; entitlements service built by parent company DMGT.</li><li>Maintained and enhanced core product TreppLoan for 2 years:Maintained legacy Perl codebase, while leading development of new features in AngularJS &amp; later a migration to React. Wrote NodeJS webservices to interface with backend resources, as well as MongoDB schemas for new user-input features. </li><li>Developed a new greenfield Appraisal product built with React, Redux, &amp; NextJS in TypeScript alongside the development and ingestion of a shared component library (SCL) intended for internal reuse companywide utilizing lerna, yarn, Storybook, GitHub Actions, &amp; npm to develop, maintain, build, test &amp; deploy components packages.</li></ul>

Software Engineer II

<ul><li>Wrote 8 STEAM curricula, encompassing over 70 hours of material &amp; taught classes for students 5-16.</li><li>As Co-Director, managed &amp; oversaw development of internal instructor training modules, marketing materials, &amp; website.</li></ul>

Co-Director, Curriculum Writer, Instructor

<ul><li>Co-founded an indie game development studio as a Partnership based out of Westchester County, NY</li><li>Programmed a 3D maze-puzzle auto-runner &quot;Sky Labyrinth&quot; using Unity3D, Xcode, &amp; Android Studio to develop for &amp; deploy to desktop, web, and mobile platforms.</li><li>Managed community outreach via social media, incorporating user feedback into each iteration</li><li>Play the beta version at: https://variancecs.itch.io/sky-labyrinth</li></ul>

Co-founder, Programmer, Community Manager

<ul><li>Obtained U.S. Government “Secret” Level Security Clearance (now expired).</li><li>Scripted AI behaviors in C# for advanced Augmented Reality training simulation in Unity3D.</li><li>Demo’d augmented reality simulation for clients, ranging from newly minted officers to senior military officials.</li><li>Added functionality to, or performed migrations of, existing systems in C++ &amp; C# in support of various engineering deadlines.</li></ul>

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Deniz Ozkaynak

Developing a privacy-first text & voice chat application for my friends & I to use; will ultimately open-source it so others can use it as well.

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