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Ottawa, Ontario

Taha Buyuktepe

Software Developer and Honours Computer Science Graduate

Education

University of Ottawa

University of Ottawa

Honours BSc in Computer Science, Minor in Economics

Sep 2021 - Apr 2026

Relevant courses

Artificial Intelligence Information Retrieval Design and Analysis of Algorithms Databases

Awards

Adobe Systems Canada Scholarship French as a Second Language Scholarship

Featured experience

Software development experience.

Selected roles where I built applications, fixed production issues, automated workflows, and collaborated with engineering teams.

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Nokia

Software Developer Co-op / Internship

Ottawa, Ontario

Apr 2025 - Aug 2025

Designed and shipped a secure access application for engineering teams working across RHEL environments.

  • Led end-to-end design and delivery of an internal SSH key-management portal in PHP and TypeScript with MySQL for approximately 500 engineers across RHEL 8/9 environments.
  • Shipped a production release with LDAP authentication, RBAC, session security, and HTTPS to improve secure developer access workflows.
PHP TypeScript MySQL LDAP RBAC RHEL

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Software Developer Co-op / Internship

Gatineau, Quebec

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025

Contributed fixes and enhancements to a C# / ASP.NET MVC regulatory reporting application backed by SQL Server.

  • Built and shipped fixes and enhancements in C# / ASP.NET MVC backed by Microsoft SQL Server for a production regulatory reporting system.
  • Resolved schedule logic defects and optimized SQL queries in reporting workflows to improve accuracy and performance.
C# ASP.NET MVC SQL Server Azure DevOps Visual Studio CI builds

Nokia

Software Engineer Co-op / Internship

Ottawa, Ontario

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Built Python automation and a React dashboard for router telemetry collection, validation, and visibility.

  • Built a Python-based router telemetry collector on Gentoo Linux to SSH into SROS and SR Linux devices and structure operational data.
  • Developed an internal React dashboard to visualize scheduled telemetry data and improve operational visibility.
Python React Gentoo Linux SSH SROS SR Linux

The Ottawa Hospital

System Administrator, Part-time / Weekends

Ottawa, Ontario

Mar 2022 - Present

Automated IAM and infrastructure workflows while supporting enterprise server operations in a healthcare environment.

  • Automated IAM and data center workflows with Python and PowerShell in a 20,000+ user enterprise environment.
  • Supported VMware infrastructure operations and critical server restore activities.
Python PowerShell IAM VMware Data center operations Server restore

Featured project

SentinelFlow

A substantial project that shows API design, asynchronous processing, persistence, testing, deployment, logging, and CI/CD in one system.

Featured project

SentinelFlow

Security event triage service that ingests multi-source events, normalizes inconsistent payloads, and groups related alerts into incidents.

  • Built the API and worker flow in Python/FastAPI, separating event intake, normalization, incident grouping, persistence, and summary generation.
  • Deployed containerized services on AWS ECS with SQS for asynchronous processing, S3 for raw event archival, and RDS PostgreSQL + pgvector for storage and similarity search.
  • Implemented AI-generated incident summaries and recommended remediation steps while maintaining automated validation and fallback logic.
Python FastAPI AWS ECS SQS S3 RDS PostgreSQL pgvector Docker GitHub Actions pytest CloudWatch

Skills

Technical toolkit.

Languages, frameworks, data stores, testing tools, and platforms I have used across internships, coursework, and projects.

Languages

Python TypeScript / JavaScript Go C# Java SQL Bash C / C++

Backend and Data

FastAPI REST APIs Async processing PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Server pgvector

Frontend

React Next.js Vue HTML / CSS Bootstrap Vite

Cloud and DevOps

AWS S3 AWS ECS AWS RDS AWS SQS CloudWatch IAM Docker Git GitHub Actions CI/CD Ansible

Testing and Systems

pytest Unit testing API testing Integration testing Linux RHEL Ubuntu SSH TLS / HTTPS

Resume

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Contact

Open to software development and new-grad SDE opportunities.

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