Munich, Germany

Hi, I'm Yücel Özdemir

I've been curious ever since I can remember. Rubik's cubes taught me that the right algorithm can solve what looks impossible, and for over 15 years, following and investing in technology has shown me how much room there is to build. I want to be an engineer who ships great software and a role model for newcomers.

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0B.Sc. GPA, top 2 of class
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// experience

Where I've been building

ACI Worldwide

Software Engineer

ACI Worldwide · Munich, Germany
Sep 2021 – Present
  • Working on React and backend development for the modernization of the ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, using Material UI.
  • Built a card brand detection, prioritization and correction system in Java to route card details to the right acquirer.
  • Created a cookie system for session IDs to address security concerns and meet PCI audit requirements.
  • Developed a vault client strategy with the Java KeyStore API so clients can authenticate applications by encrypting private keys.
  • Built a payment widget bug-logging system in JavaScript that customers can switch on/off to protect data privacy.
  • Fixed various security vulnerabilities and handled urgent incidents and bugs together with customer service.
  • Ran production release risk-estimation meetings and releases with DevOps teams.
JavaReactMaterial UIJavaScriptPCI
Intel

Software Engineer · Working Student

Intel Corporation · Munich, Germany
Sep 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Developed Eclipse debugging plugins and perspectives in Java for the Intel System Debugger.
  • Built the GUI with SWT and Eclipse libraries, plus a message dialog to collect bug details from clients.
  • Conducted performance analyses for load testing.
JavaEclipseSWT
Turkish Economy Bank

Junior Software Engineer

Turkish Economy Bank (BNP Paribas JV) · Izmir, Turkey
Aug 2019 – Mar 2020
  • Developed the cheque-book and commercial card sales applications for bank branch employees using agile methods.
  • Backend in Java and PL/SQL with service-oriented architecture; frontend in React; server-side with Java Server Faces.
  • Built cron jobs to automatically terminate incomplete sales.
JavaPL/SQLReactJSFTFS
Aselsan

Software Engineering Intern

Aselsan · Ankara, Turkey
Jul 2018 – Aug 2018
  • Built an object detection and classification system for military vehicles with 80% accuracy (Faster R-CNN, TensorFlow 1.6).
  • Developed a C# desktop app to collect datasets from the Internet and annotated images with LabelImg.
PythonTensorFlowC#
// projects

Things I've built

Android apps

QuizDungeonKotlin
Private
QuickNoteKotlin
Private
Nonogram Logic Pixel ArtKotlin
Private
AquagenesisKotlin
Private
FastPDFKotlin
Private
Last Lord: Zombie RouteKotlin
Private
ChronoPulseKotlin
Private

Open source & coursework

CryptographyJava

DES, RSA and DSS implementations.
Design PatternsJava

Mediator, Composite, Decorator, State, Strategy, Observer, Abstract Factory and SOLID.
Data StructuresJava

Stack, Queue, Linked List, Binary Search Tree.
Artificial IntelligencePython

DFS, BFS, Uniform Cost Search and A* Search.
Machine LearningPython

Machine learning experiments and coursework.

See all repositories on GitHub →

// education

Academic background

TU Munich

M.Sc. Informatics

Technical University of Munich · Munich, Germany
Apr 2020Paused for full-time work
  • Grade: 2.3 (German grading system)
  • Courses: Blockchain-based Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Patterns in Software Engineering, JavaScript Technology Seminar, Deep Learning, Algorithmic Game Theory.
Izmir Institute of Technology

B.Sc. Computer Science

Izmir Institute of Technology · Izmir, Turkey
Sep 2014 – Jul 2019GPA 3.70
  • 2nd ranked degree in the department; graduated as High Honor Student.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering tracks.
  • Senior project: Face Recognition System for Home Security — read the report.
  • Activities: folk dances, theatre, aikido, basketball, drawing.
Tomas Bata University

B.A.Sc. Applied Informatics (Erasmus+)

Tomas Bata University in Zlin · Zlin, Czechia
Sep 2017 – Jan 2018GPA 3.85
  • One semester as an Erasmus+ exchange student.
  • Won the dance category at the international cultural night organized by Buddy System Zlin.
// skills

Tools of the trade

Java
Python
C#
SQL
Node.js
MongoDB
Gradle
// recognition

Awards & certifications

// languages

Languages I speak

Turkish Mother tongue English Working proficiency German Beginner Japanese Beginner
// interests

Beyond the code

Mechanical watches Investment Lego Technology Boomerang Rubik's cubes Travelling

Apart from being a software engineer, I enjoy being outdoors — riding a bike and throwing a boomerang.

I'm a fan of mechanical watches and keep a humble collection. They taught me that excellent designs work timelessly.

Indoors, I follow sci-fi, superhero and action movies or documentaries, and spend plenty of time reading about the latest tech. I also have a humble Lego collection.

I can solve Rubik's cubes from 2×2 up to 7×7.