Deniz Akdur is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at ASELSAN, Inc., which is the largest Defense & Aerospace company of Turkey. Prior to that, he worked as a Software Architect for different companies in both Turkey and United Kingdom in Consumer Electronics sector. He received his BSc degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University and MSc & PhD degrees in Information Systems from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey. His specialties and research interests include software engineering, software-intensive embedded systems, model-driven engineering, industry-academia collaborations and software engineering education.