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Lead frontend developer at Twin Science since 2023: the Angular platform at app.twinscience.com, a React rewrite of the admin panel, the H5P players behind its games and videos, and the WordPress site. Now also an MSc Computer Science student at the University of Insubria, moving to Varese, Italy. Before the web, six published mobile games as sole developer.
I build interfaces that have to survive real users, real deadlines and a roadmap that never stops moving.
Performance is the baseline
Speed is not a bonus feature. It is product quality, and it is a requirement from the first commit.
People, not screens
I design experiences, not surfaces. Every interaction should read as clear, purposeful and easy to trust.
The roadmap does not stop
I build large rewrites incrementally, so the team never has to stop releasing to accommodate them.
Technology serves something
With YGA I run Twin-kit science workshops for children in the cities hit by the 2023 earthquakes.
Games first, then production frontend.
Software Engineer / Frontend Developer · Twin Science
Lead frontend developer of app.twinscience.com, Twin Science's AI-powered K-12 STEM platform — ten months of it alongside a senior developer, and 88% of today's code is mine. Angular 16 to 22, mobile Lighthouse from 50 to 94, a 33-tool AI content generator, streaming assistants, the quiz module and smart-board Presentation Mode, and zero to 2,191 running tests. On the same team I rewrote the admin panel in React 19 on my own, built the H5P players the games and videos run on, and develop our WordPress site. I also mentored two frontend interns who reported directly to me (2024 and 2026).
Company recognition during my time: TIME World's Top EdTech Companies 2025 · London Tech Week, Harnessing Tech in Education (2024) · BESA Highly Commended (2024) · HundrED Global Collection 2024
Frontend Intern · Twin Science
Component work across edtech products — the foundation of production-level frontend discipline.
IMAGINER Student Ambassador · Microsoft
Ran student workshops and technical sessions on Microsoft tooling at university and community events.
Junior Game Developer · Servo Studios
Owned the full lifecycle of five mobile games in Unity and C# — sole developer and product manager, shipping inside one-month deadlines.
Software Engineer Intern · Beylikdüzü Municipality
A short public-sector term on implementation-focused engineering tasks.
Science fields, Bilim Seferberliği · YGA
Twin-kit science workshops for children in the cities hit by the 2023 earthquakes, and platform and kit training for teachers.
Taking science out of the screen and into the field.
I volunteer with YGA (Young Guru Academy), a non-profit whose Bilim Seferberliği — Science Mobilisation — sends science kits to children in under-resourced schools, trains their teachers online, and since the 2023 earthquakes has run hands-on science fields in the affected cities.
The kits are Twin's, first designed by YGA alumni. So the set whose platform I build during the week is the one I teach children with in the field — and with teachers, I train both the kits and the platform.
- 26 July 2023UnileverTwin event
A Twin science field at Unilever, where children built their own contraptions with Twin kits.
- 3 August 2024Samandağ, Hatay
My first YGA field: a Twin-kit workshop with more than 13 children in Samandağ after the earthquake.
- 1–3 November 2024Adana
Three days of parallel fields in schools, reaching more than 400 children in total.
- 10–11 May 2025Gaziantep
More than 200 children over two days. When YGA Italy visited on the 11th, I bridged them and the children in English.
- 6 October 2026Zonguldak
A teacher field: Twin platform and kit training for more than 10 teachers.
Children's faces are blurred in every photo.
Stack, education and languages.
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Education
MSc Computer Science
B.S. Software Engineering
English Preparatory, C1
Cultural Introduction Programme