Alper Karadeniz

CS MSc @ ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Alper Karadeniz
data → insight → product

Product-minded builder who thrives in fast-paced environments. I enjoy turning ideas into reality, shipping fast, and solving problems creatively. ✨

🎓 Education

Master of Computer Science

M.Sc.
ETH Zurich 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland

2025 – Present

Bachelor of Business Management

B.A.
Sabanci University 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

2022 – 2025 | GPA: 3.88/4.00 Valedictorian

Bachelor of Computer Science

B.Sc.
Sabanci University 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

2020 – 2024 | GPA: 3.90/4.00

Erasmus+ Exchange

VU Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023

💼 Experience

Teaching Assistant

Part-time
ETH Zurich 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland

Sep 2025 – Present

Software Engineering Fundamentals: labs, office hours, and project mentoring. 👨‍🏫

Software Engineer

Full-time
Midas 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

Jul 2024 – Jan 2025

Back-end engineer on trading platform. Real-time data processing and performance optimization. ⚡

Java Spring Boot Kafka Redis Docker

DevOps Engineer Intern

Internship
Siemens 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024

Azure DevOps CI/CD setup and release workflows with cross-team coordination. 🚀

Azure DevOps CI/CD Automation

Research Assistant

Part-time
Sabanci University 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

Sep 2020 – Dec 2023

Software engineering, HCI, and social computing research. Automated testing and data analysis. 🔬

Python Research Data Analysis

Backend Engineer Intern

Internship
Solvoyo 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

Jul 2023 – Sep 2023

AWS-based alerting service with multi-channel notifications. ☁️

Amazon Web Services .NET

Teaching Assistant

Part-time
Sabanci University 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Türkiye

Sep 2021 – Jan 2023

Led recitations and office hours for programming and database courses. 📚

C++ Python SQL MongoDB

Research Assistant

Internship
King's College London 🇬🇧 London, England

Jul 2022 – Sep 2022

COVID-19 graph perception experiments and data visualization analysis. 📊

Python Data Analysis

Research Intern

Internship
TÜBİTAK 🇹🇷 Kocaeli, Türkiye

Feb 2022 – Mar 2022

CNN-based face recognition prototype. 🤖

Computer Vision