About Me


Currently working as a Software Engineer focused more on Backend Development, I have previous work experience in Backend/Full-Stack Development and Data Science.

Having experience in various software engineering paradigms in different industries helps me understand, design and deliver scalable software. I'm highly motivated to build quality software products using the right tech stack depending on the product's specific needs.

I strive to continue learning and improving myself everyday.

Work Experience


Software Engineer - Thirona November 2020 - December 2021

  • Worked on the web app, API and infrastructure of Thirona using Python, Django, Javascript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Bash.
  • Developed/maintained a number of internal systems/tools mostly using Django, Flask, MySQL, Docker.

Software Engineer - Lifemote Networks April 2020 - November 2020

  • Worked on the RESTful APIs of the analytics and visualization services for the main product using Python, Django, Flask, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Bash. Constantly adding new features to the product and optimizing performance of these resources.
  • Improved the organization’s CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, Terraform and several AWS services.
  • Built a CLI module to ease the process of setting up and using a local development environment for all the internal projects using Bash, Click, AWS CLI and Docker Compose. This module decreased the time spent by developers on building and refreshing their local development environment from 10+ minutes to 2 minutes.

Software Engineer - Zingat.com September 2019 - April 2020

  • Worked on a data crawling API with ETL process using Python, Tornado, Scrapy, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Celery, Redis, AWS, Docker.
  • Maintained and built new features for website’s microservices such as commenting and rating service, schools data providing service. Tech stack mostly included Django and Django Rest Frameworks.

Data Scientist - LC Waikiki (Part-time) November 2018 - September 2019

  • Performed discount optimization on regional sales data from across the country using K-Means clustering with Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, NumPy, Matplotlib, and improved sales by 105% and gross profit rate by 16.8% on products with regional discounts.
  • Improved feedback system by developing a micro-service to analyze sentiment of customer feedback on the goods. Used Naive Bayes algorithm to classify feedback as Positive or Negative with 92,5% accuracy, precision and recall. Tech stack included Python, Flask, Javascript, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn.
  • Worked with HR department to develop an employee churn algorithm to calculate each employee’s probability of leaving the company. Used Scikit-learn’s Gradient Boosting algorithm and achieved 89% accuracy on past employees’ labeled data.

Software Engineering Intern - Gigbi.com June 2017 - January 2018

  • Experienced full-stack web development for the marketplace platform using MVC architecture and the tech stack included PHP, MySQL, JQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Git, Atlassian JIRA and Bitbucket.
  • Developed a unique WordPress plugin for the platform’s blog using PHP for the backend and HTML5, Bootstrap, JQuery to create custom footers and in-post ads. This implementation improved the blog’s Click-Through-Rate by ~75%.
  • Integrated Google AMP to the blog in order to increase the readability of blog posts from mobile devices. Increased traffic to blog posts by ~25%.

Education


While studying at Bogazici University, Istanbul, I have completed related courses of my field, including, but not limited to,

  • Introduction to Algorithms and Programming
  • Object Oriented Programming in Java
  • Object Oriented Modelling
  • Business Application Development
  • System Analysis and Design
  • Business Data Communications
  • Database Systems
  • Data Mining
  • E-Business Management
  • Quantitative Analysis for Decision Making

During the Spring term of 2017-2018, I was an Erasmus exchange student at Utrecht University, and I've successfully completed the following two courses there:

  • Organisation and ICT
  • Information Security

Contact


If you would like to get in touch with me, be it for exploring a technology, a business, or to just say hi, feel free to send me an email.

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