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Experience
2025
Quant Developer Intern · IS Investment
Investment Technologies Dept.
- Learned about financial instruments like options and built a Black-Scholes options pricer in Python.
- Built an order book using numpy and pandas with data from the ITCH protocol, stored in ClickhouseDB.
- Embedded a fast, modular backtesting engine to test passive buy-wall and active momentum strategies.
Jul — Aug 2025
2023
Software Engineering Intern · H3M Analytics
AML Team
- Extracted data via the Oracle DB library and wrote MySQL queries to preprocess 1M+ financial transactions across 1000+ accounts.
- Built a fraud detection model with 0.71 accuracy using logistic regression and scikit-learn.
Aug — Sep 2023
2023
Venture Analyst Intern · Vestel Ventures
Zorlu Group VC
- Awarded the internship after winning Robert College's annual elevator pitch competition.
- Scouted 100+ startups via startups.watch and delivered a fintech growth projection report using Python data analysis.
- Developed understanding of SaaS products by attending the SaaStanbul conference.
Jul — Aug 2023
Projects
HTTP Server
Multi-threaded HTTP/1.1 server in C++ using BSD sockets and low-level TCP. Handles concurrent connections via std::thread with mutex synchronisation, request parsing, and static file serving.
FitBro App
Full-stack fitness tracking app with a RESTful API delivering sub-150ms response times. CI/CD pipeline halved deployment time. Polyglot persistence — MongoDB for workout logs, PostgreSQL for auth — containerised with Docker and orchestrated with K8s.
Personal Portfolio
This site — sticky split-screen layout, live GitHub & LeetCode API integration, and a static export deployed to Cloudflare Pages.
Education
2024
—
2027
University College London
BSc Computer Science
On track for 1st Class Honours
London, UK
2019
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2024
Robert College
MEB High School Diploma
96.70 / 100 · SAT 1530 (Math: 800 · English: 730)
Istanbul, TR
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Writing
Occasional posts on web dev, systems programming, quant finance, and things I learn along the way.
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