Deniz Aygun 👨💻 Software Engineer

Experience Full-Stack Developer / Waterstones May 2020 – Present (6 months) Delivering and maintaining large scale commercial projects, including the commercial site, loyalty scheme and mobile API with the help of various tools and frameworks including Zend, Laravel, PHPUnit, Vue and Sphinx. Full-Stack Developer / The Roll March 2018 – May 2020 (2 years, 3 months)

Working with stakeholders to architect and build an e-learning platform from the ground up.

Contributions included developing and consuming APIs, calendars, scheduling, notifications, 2FA authentication, authorisation, ActiveRecord (ORM), business’s website, version control, error and systems monitoring, security with external penetration tests, training and mentoring a new developer, communicating and translating between stakeholders to solve and address their needs. Backend Developer / Your Favourite Story

October 2018 – March 2019 (6 months)

Utilised Laravel, Lumen, Yii, AWS and various other frameworks and services to deliver solutions, primarily for the company's main client Mercedes Benz UK. Additional DevOps contributions included integrating efficient DB migration solutions via AWS DMS, migrating several CI/CD servers and setting up pipelines. Backend Developer / GreenSquid Solutions

Jul 2016 – Jun 2017 (1 year)

Worked effectively in a small team to establish and maintain various projects, primarily Laravel/PHP ones. Main responsibilities and contributions included extensive use of MySQL including normalisation, import/export and efficiency aspects, introduction to games development with C# and unity, consuming and developing REST APIs, setting up and running interviews, agile development with daily scrums, AI development with the Google Vision API.

Education Computer Science - BSc (Hons) Degree / University of Kent - 2014 to 2018 1st Year - Distinction, 2nd Year - Merit, 3rd Year - Distinction and 4th Year – Merit

Dissertation – A group software engineering project to develop an online trading platform for students with a mobile app companion (Android Studio + Java). Utilised Laravel, HTML5 Geolocation API, Google Maps Distance Matrix API, Algolia, Unit Tests etc. Final Grade - Upper Second-Class Honours 2:1 IT & Computing - BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma / Canterbury College - 2012 to 2014 Took on additional modules to achieve the extended diploma, of which all modules completed to the highest level possible which resulted in a final grade of 3 x Distinction* (equivalent to 3 A levels at A*)

Skills

PHP / Laravel / Lumen /

Yii / Zend / CodeIgniter /

TDD / Sphinx / MySQL /

MongoDB / GIT / REST APIs /

UNIX / CI & CD / DevOps /

Docker / HTML / JS

ES6 / TailwindCSS /

Bootstrap / Vue / Node / NPM

& Yarn & Composer /

UI & UX / Scrum & Kanban

Personal Projects

Workout Tracking App

A simple and effective web app, built using the MEVN stack (Mongo, Express, Vue & Node) & Tailwind CSS.

Minecraft Username Tool

In 2015, I consumed Mojang’s API to provide users with an online tool for looking up username changes.

Minecraft Java Plugin

In 2014, I developed a simple plugin called “zPlayerFreeze” in Java which utilised the Bukkit API and received over 4000 downloads. Volunteering

UK Analogue Missions Jan 2019 – Present (1 yr, 2 mo) Helping UKAM with their technical IT needs and problems, especially with communication, both internal and external, as well as maintaining and improving their online presence.

denizaygun@hotmail.co.uk

07707 951489

Hackney, London, UK

Remote Sweden / UK

London, UK

Kent, UK

Remote / London, UK