# Deniz Kusefoglu

> Software Engineer - Infrastructure at Vercel

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/deniz

I make the web faster at Vercel.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Infrastructure @ Vercel
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer - DevOps @ InfluxData
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Managed and oversaw software deployments in our mutli-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) multi-region clusters using Kubernetes and Jsonnet. Wrote Jsonnet configurations to deploy and manage our applications in Kubernetes.
- Implemented end-to-end testing in our CI/CD pipeline to enforce API contracts between services.
- Created tools to enable internal developers to iterate on their local machines using kubernetes in docker (kind).
- Designed and built a new serverless query endpoint product, working closely with customers and product development teams to iterate on UX.
Technologies used: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Jsonnet, Go, bash.

### Senior Software Engineer - UI @ InfluxData
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed the open-source data visualization and UI platform Chronograf.
- Architected the API for the 2.x SAAS cloud platform product.
- Designed features and UX in collaboration with Product and design teams iterating to achieve product-market fit. Scoped, designed and built “Sample Data” backend feature to allow users to easily demo our product.
- Scoped, designed and built the “templates” feature to allow users to export and import resources.
Implemented the LSP server integration for InfluxDB’s data scripting and query language flux.
- Built a monitoring & eventing suite with an InfluxDB backend to monitor utilization of our UI.
- Conducted interviews and led hiring discussions.
- Mentored new hires and interns.
Technologies used: React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Mathematics
University of Chicago
Jan 2001 – Jan 2006

### Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Neuroscience
Oregon Health & Science University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013

### The Recurse Center
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017

### Recurse Center

### Howard Hughes Medical Institute


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/deniz-kusefoglu-ab032313

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Last updated: 2026-03-20