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    "title": "Deniz's Notes",
    "home_page_url": "https://denizd.xyz/notes",
    "description": "Collection of personal notes and thoughts",
    "author": {
        "name": "Deniz Dogan",
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            "content_html": "<div><section>\n  <div><p>2024</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Biotech Role</h2>\n      <p>Joined a biotech company as a Software Developer, building AI-based imaging and backend systems for digital pathology.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2021</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Return to Industry</h2>\n      <p>Realized academia wasn’t the right fit and moved to an automation and vision startup as a Deep Learning Engineer, building AI-powered quality inspection and camera streaming apps.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2020</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Academic Research Role</h2>\n      <p>Worked at a university clinic as a Research Scientist, developing deep learning pipelines for microscopy imaging.</p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Relocation</h2>\n      <p>Moved to Germany to begin a new chapter.</p>\n      <img src=\"https://denizd.xyz/assets/path/heidelberg.jpeg\" alt=\"Relocation\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2018</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Master’s Degree</h2>\n      <p>Earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2016</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>First Industry Role</h2>\n      <p>Joined the defense industry as a full-time Software Developer, working on AI-driven surveillance and object detection.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2015</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Career Shift</h2>\n      <p>Shifted focus from Electronics Engineering to Computer Science.</p>\n    </li>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Bachelor’s Degree</h2>\n      <p>Graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>2010</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Started University</h2>\n      <p>Enrolled in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section><section>\n  <div><p>1992</p></div>\n  <ol>\n    <li>\n      <h2>Birth</h2>\n      <p>The beginning of the journey.</p>\n    </li>\n  </ol>\n</section></div>\n",
            "url": "https://denizd.xyz/notes/path",
            "title": "Path",
            "summary": "Some highlights of my life and the work along the way",
            "date_modified": "2026-08-22T00:00:00.000Z",
            "tags": [
                "Personal"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "https://denizd.xyz/notes/quotes",
            "content_html": "<p><em>Some inspirational quotes I like</em></p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What we do now echoes in eternity.<br>— <em>Marcus Aurelius</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Özgürlük ve bağımsızlık benim karakterimdir.<br><em>Freedom and independence form my character.</em><br>— <em>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.<br>— <em>Aristotle</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.<br>— <em>Isaac Newton</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Eppur si muove.<br><em>And yet it moves.</em><br>— <em>Galileo Galilei</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.<br>— <em>Theodore Roosevelt</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.<br>— <em>Marcus Aurelius</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.<br>— <em>Bertrand Russell</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.<br>— <em>Leonardo da Vinci</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it, chased it.<br>— <em>African Proverb</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn&#39;t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn&#39;t know it so it goes on flying anyway.<br>— <em>Mary Kay Ash</em>  </p>\n</blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The best is the enemy of the good.<br>— <em>Voltaire</em></p>\n</blockquote>\n",
            "url": "https://denizd.xyz/notes/quotes",
            "title": "Timeless Quotes",
            "summary": "Some inspirational quotes I like",
            "date_modified": "2025-04-05T00:00:00.000Z",
            "tags": [
                "Personal"
            ]
        }
    ]
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