Hey, I'm
Ayberk.
I'm an engineer. I like making things well. I design and build software, and I enjoy the whole of that range, from shaping how using it feels and how beautiful it looks to designing the backstage that makes it efficient and reliable. The best part is watching something I built get used, seeing it make a task lighter or solve a problem. That is what keeps me building: not just the craft of it, but the satisfaction I get when I see the good it does once it is in people's hands.
PROJECTS
view all projects →LeaveManager: A Desktop Leave System Running Real Government Offices
A .NET 8 desktop application that encodes Turkish leave law and office rules into one tool, built for a single manager and now used organically to manage around 60 people across multiple government offices.
Real-Time IoT People Counting: Two Architectures for the Same Problem
An IoT people-counting pipeline implemented two opposite ways, server-side inference versus on-device edge inference, to measure the compute-versus-bandwidth tradeoff.
GhostDJ: A Music Player You Control by Waving Your Hand
A webcam-based music player with no buttons and no gesture classifier, the entire interface is built from tracking two fingertips and a dwell timer, using hand-landmark detection and spatial hit-testing.
Real-Time Fall Detection for Elderly Care Homes Using GRU Networks
A real-time, server-side pipeline that monitors elderly care home residents through their smartphones and alerts staff the moment a fall is confirmed, built with a Flask/Flask-SocketIO server and a PyTorch GRU model, containerized with Docker.
Mobile 12-Lead ECG Platform
A solo, full-stack real-time electrocardiography system. A custom STM32 and ADS1292R analog front end streams cardiac signals over USB to a Flutter application that renders twelve leads on a calibrated medical grid at 60 fps, fully offline.
ChatUp: A Spring Boot + React Native Chat Application
A two-tier chat application with a Java Spring Boot REST API, MongoDB, and an Expo/React Native client, featuring JWT authentication and friend-gated messaging.
SneakPeek: A Microservice E-Commerce Platform
A full-featured online sneaker store built by a team of six over seven Scrum sprints, with a NestJS microservice backend, gRPC service mesh, and Kafka event backbone.
An FPGA Elevator Control System in Verilog
A complete elevator control system for a 5-floor building, written in Verilog and implemented on a Nexys A7 FPGA, with direction-aware request scheduling.
SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION
Full Stack Developer Intern
Jul 2024 — Oct 2024Took a two-person team’s social app from concept to launch, building the database, auth, and core social features end to end.
- Part of a two-person team that designed and launched CyphrSpace, a social media app, from concept to full release.
- Designed and managed the database using Firebase and AWS for user interactions and media content.
- Implemented user authentication, including sign-in, sign-up, and backend services for managing accounts.
- Built following, messaging, comments, likes, and shares functionality.
- Built and optimized profile management — editing profiles, following others, and managing settings.
- Created video recording/publishing features and image editing tools, including cropping and camera access.
Food & Beverage Attendant
Jun 2023 — Oct 2023Covered food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server responsibilities in a luxury hotel environment, consistently adapting to operational needs while maintaining high service standards during workloads of up to 100 hours per week.
- Undertook food runner, barback, banquet server, and pool server roles, demonstrating adaptability and teamwork in a fast-paced elite Hotel setting.
- Developed strong teamwork skills, English speaking proficiency, multitasking skills, and the ability to work under intense pressure up to 100 hours per week.
Food & Beverage Attendant
Jul 2023 — Oct 2023Picked up part-time busser, food runner, and barback shifts at 21c Hotels, keeping the restaurant and bar running smoothly during busy service.
- Worked part-time across busser, food runner, and barback roles, helping the restaurant and bar stay on top of a fast-paced hospitality environment.
Linen Attendant
Jul 2023 — Oct 2023Worked part-time as a Linen Attendant at the Marriott St. Louis Grand, keeping linen supply and turnover running smoothly across the hotel.
- Handled sorting, counting, and restocking linen across the hotel, helping housekeeping operations run on schedule during busy periods.
Research Assistant
Sep 2022 — Feb 2023Ran an NLP study on employee survey data to surface what drives organizational trust and engagement.
- Conducted an academic research study using NLP to process and evaluate 1,120 open-ended employee survey responses from 60 organizations.
- Used sentiment analysis, BERTopic-based topic modeling, and exploratory clustering techniques.
- Identified key drivers of organizational trust and workforce engagement.
Backend Developer Intern
Jun 2022 — Sep 2022Helped build the backend for a national-scale data management and analysis project alongside senior engineers.
- Worked on a national-scale project involving data management and analysis.
- Collaborated with senior backend developers to develop RESTful APIs for a new project using ASP.NET Core MVC framework and C#.
- Participated in designing and optimizing database schema for improved performance and scalability.
- Collaborated closely with frontend developers to integrate backend functionalities into the user interface.
- Contributed to code reviews, provided feedback and suggestions for code optimization and maintainability.
Master of Engineering
Sep 2026 — Jun 2027Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Sep 2021 — Jun 2025Dean’s List (High Honors) · GPA 3.69 / 4.00 · Honor Scholarship recipient (full tuition, merit-based).
- Ranked in the top 0.04% (first 1,000) among approximately 2.6 million candidates in the 2021 Turkish national university entrance exam (YKS), earning a 4-year scholarship to Sabancı University.
- Computational Approach to Problem-Solving (Python)
- Advanced Programming (C++)
- Logic & Digital System Design (Verilog)
- Introduction to Data Science (Python, Data Extraction, Feature Engineering)
- Mobile Application Development (Java, Kotlin)
- Systems Modelling & Control (MATLAB, Simulink)
- Internet of Things (Edge Computing, BERT, GRU Networks)
- Programming Languages (Flex, Bison, Ada)
- Database Systems (MySQL)
- Machine Learning (Unsupervised Learning, CNNs)
- Software Engineering (Agile Practices, Scrum, CI/CD, Containerization, Microservices)
- Data Structures and Algorithms