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Uzay Durdu

Software · Systems · Security

Langenargen · Lake Constance

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bodensee
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software.systems.security

Clear as the lake. Reliable like good work.

Software

Build software that stays maintainable.

Systems

Build the systems software depends on — distributed ones included.

Security

Make systems harder to break.

  1. Understand
  2. Simplify
  3. Build
  4. Observe
  5. Secure
  6. Automate

Engineering

Not a checklist of qualifications — a loop. Understand the problem before touching code. Simplify until the solution is boring. Build it. Observe how it behaves under real load. Secure what you built. Automate what you'd otherwise repeat.

One request, seven layers.

  1. User

    Where the request begins.

  2. Application

    Business logic, given shape.

  3. API

    The contract between systems.

  4. Data

    State, persisted and protected.

  5. Infrastructure

    What keeps it all running.

  6. Observability

    Seeing what's actually happening.

    1. System
    2. Metrics
    3. Logs
    4. Signals
    5. Action

  7. Security

    Built assuming it will be tested.

Off the clock.

Chess

Patience, calculated risk, thinking several moves ahead.

Muay Thai

Discipline and composure under pressure.

Cycling

Long rides to reset and think clearly.

Beyond the stack.

Languages and frameworks change from project to project — this doesn't.

Ownership

A task handed to me gets finished. A bug reported gets fixed — no half-done tickets.

Debugging

Reads unfamiliar code fast, traces a problem to its real cause, and fixes what's actually broken instead of guessing.

Research

Digs until there's a real answer — testing assumptions, reading the source — rather than settling for the first thing that seems to work.

Simplifying

Turns tangled, unfamiliar systems into something a team can actually understand, reason about, and maintain.

Systems engineer by profession.
Builder by curiosity.

Uzay Durdu is a Systems Engineer with a Master's degree in IT from the University of Konstanz, based in Langenargen on Lake Constance, Germany. Work spans software, systems and security — plus selected freelance projects.

Currently

Systems Engineer · WINGCON AG · Langenargen, Germany

Telecommunications systems for high-security, mission-critical environments — including railway communication.

Academic Contribution

Evaluating Node Selection Techniques for Network Visualizations in Virtual Reality

ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI '24) · Trier, Germany

Co-authored with researchers at the University of Konstanz.

Publication → ACM Digital Library ↗

Build. Fix. Secure.

Build

Websites, applications and software.

Fix

Systems, infrastructure and technical problems.

Secure

Security checks, monitoring and infrastructure hardening.

Let's build
something
useful.

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗

Langenargen · Germany