01Experience

Day-to-day means reading existing React components, fixing bugs, and shipping small features. Most of the learning is how a team actually moves. Code review, tickets, git workflow. The parts no school teaches.

• React UI work in a production codebase
• Bug fixes against real users
• First time in a proper team workflow

BTM is Istanbul's startup commercialization center. The program is workshops and mentorship around building a real company, not theory. I'm developing my own idea through it and meeting people already doing this for a living.

• Learning fundamentals of startup development, including business models and customer validation
• Developing a startup idea through program workshops and mentorship
• Gaining exposure to the startup ecosystem and networking with entrepreneurs

Most of the job was async. Keeping everyone unblocked across time zones, deciding scope, and saying no to things we couldn't ship in time. The hardest part was not the code, it was the calendar.

• Async-first across 5 time zones
• Scope cuts to hit the deadline
• UN SDG 11 framing for the project

Built in Android Studio with Java. Worked on navigation, the user flow when reporting an unsafe spot, and some UI components. Learned a lot about how Android handles state compared to the web.

• Navigation and report flow
• UI components
• Android Studio / Java

Wrote captions, scheduled posts, ran small A/B tests on ad creatives. Learned that what you think will perform usually doesn't. The boring stuff often wins.

• Content scheduling
• Ad creative A/B tests
• Local-market audience research

Started in a group chat, grew to 30+ across 6 countries. Most of the value was just people sharing what they learned about applying abroad. Visa stuff, scholarships, what schools actually look for.

• 30+ members, 6 countries
• Knowledge sharing on study-abroad
• Lightweight, no overhead

Short stint, fully remote, small international team. Worked on campaign content for an edtech product. The company was acquired by Snowday Education shortly after.

• Remote campaign work
• International team
• Acquired by Snowday Education