Who Am I?
My name Is Toprak Koς. I am a passionate Front-End Engineer, and I started coding at an early age. I have worked at some of Turkey's best known startups. I am passionate about technology as a whole, not simply a specific framework or language. I love discovering new concepts and techniques. Quality is extremely important to me and I always make sure to do my best and generate the finest product I can.
Skills
Front End
HTML / CSS / SASS / LESS / Ant Design
JavaScript / jQuery / React / TypeScript / React Native / WebSockets / WebRTC / GraphQL / REST
Source Control
Git / Github / Bitbucket / Agile
Kanban / Scrum / Jira / Confluence
UI/UX
Figma / Prototyping
Wireframing / Adobe Photoshop
Professional Experience
Front-End Engineer @ Firefly
November 2021 - Current / San Francisco, CaliforniaFirefly is the street-level digital media network that connects audiences with dynamic media on top of taxis and rideshare vehicles. Our best-in-class screens deliver dynamic content based on location-based, data-enabled triggers and engage consumers across our nation’s busiest cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, Dallas, Boston and Miami.
Front-End Developer @ Akinon
November 2020 - November 2021 / Istanbul, Turkey↳ Engineered the new features and enhancements on 4 different projects.
Programmed with React / SASS / TypeScript / Styled Components / Websockets / WebRTC.
↳ Chaired and developed a live steam platform for e-commerce companies. Launched with Lacoste Turkey.
↳ Formalized coding and code review standards for better development.
↳ Aligned with other teams and C-levels to create new projects.
↳ Simplified the UI and improved the UX.
↳ Accelerated the performance of the project.
↳ Diagnosed the customer requests.
↳ Refactored the old components and functions for better performance.
↳ Reduced the time of getting customer feedbacks by automatizing the processes.
Volunteer Organizer @ UX'Minimal
November 2019 - Current / Ankara, Turkey↳ Modified the community website by using Webflow.
↳ Designed and built the event flow page.
↳ Organized the biggest online interactive event in Turkey.
↳ Built a project for visual event attendance badges. Programmed with React.
Software Developer @ Insider
October 2019 - June 2020 / Istanbul, Turkey↳ Built, designed, and modified products defined by the partner brands to boost their user impressions.
Programmed with JavaScript / jQuery / PHP / MySQL / Insider API
↳ Guide students and interns by giving them coding lessons and talks.
↳ Counseled to the Account Managers and the Partner brands to assist.
↳ Informed teams about the company news in daily standups with presentations.
↳ Analyzed and discovered new technologies to serve better products and solutions
↳ Reduced plastic, water, and energy usage of the company and help for the recycling with Green Team.
Volunteer Organizer @ Google Developer Groups Ankara
February 2018 - November 2019 / Ankara, Turkey↳ Organized 11 technology events with more than 1.000 attendees in Ankara.
↳ Represented the community as a Community Ambassador at Google I/O event in San Francisco.
↳ Mentored and directed the community members.
↳ Discovered qualified persons for event talks.
↳ Designed event newsletters and announcements.
↳ Reached being the first biggest GDG MeetUp community in Turkey.
↳ Negotiated with companies and places to find fundings and places for the events.
↳ Administered and created the website of the community by using JavaScript and Firebase
Intern @ JotForm
September 2017 - June 2018 / Ankara, Turkey↳ Created a user-based cloud storage widget which reduces cloud services’ costs.
Programmed with JavaScript / PHP / Gearman / MySQL / Google API / Dropbox API / AWS API
↳ Participated in every tech team and learned JotForm's tech stack.
↳ Collaborated with the Data Science team and investigated speeding up the algorithms on TensorFlow