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Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye
I am a high-school student developing web and mobile applications. I also work on a Firefox-based browser and a programming language with Turkish syntax.
Education
Şehit İlhan Güleç Anadolu Lisesi — Language track, 2023–2027 (expected graduation).
Experience
PathQuester — Developer intern, approximately one year. Worked on the web development of a membership portal. My tasks included user roles and access permissions across an organisation, data migration scripts and updates that needed to write to two data sources.
Independent developer — 2023–present. Web and mobile application work, including fixing website bugs, adding components to existing interfaces and maintaining applications. My first paid React project, VERASIS, was a school appointment system for parent–teacher meetings and teacher schedules.
GençTek Kahramanmaraş / MEB YEĞİTEK — Instructor, 2026. Prepared and taught “Veriden Zekaya”, a three-week, six-session applied AI course for high-school students. Covered data preparation, regression and classification, neural networks, model evaluation and AI ethics.
YouthX Research — Founder, 2024–present. An independent software and research initiative run with other students. My work includes AI projects, the Hüma language and educational activities. Project records
AI with Youth / Dr. Emre Dinç — Participant and speaker, 2025–present. I take part in the youth AI workshops run by Dr. Emre Dinç. At the September 2025 event I gave a talk titled “Language Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.
Şehit İlhan Güleç Anadolu Lisesi — Peer teaching, 2025–present. Started a web development workshop at school. Taught HTML, CSS and JavaScript fundamentals and helped students build their first websites.
Selected projects
Hüma — A programming language I am developing in Rust, following Turkish grammar. It includes a parser, interpreter and bytecode virtual machine; work on the language and runtime is ongoing. Source code
Hilal Browser — An open-source desktop browser based on Firefox. I work on the interface, tabs and separate workspaces; it uses the Firefox and Gecko codebase. I also run the project's user and contributor community. Source code
Notia — A photo-journaling application I am developing with Flutter and Dart, built around adding notes to photographs and finding past entries. Source code
Sezi — A Python evaluation suite measuring how Turkish language models distinguish evidentiality (-di and -miş past-tense markers) across a 108-item task matrix and human validation forms.
Games and small experiments
Marash's Gangs — A game about the 1920 resistance in Maraş, developed with a team in 48 hours at Madalyon Game Jam. It received the category award in the art category. Game
Hanzi Yolu — A small experiment I made for Chinese reading practice, trying out word and character inspection, radical views and stroke-order views. Source code
Presentations and activities
- ICETOL 2026, Bremen. Presented the Hüma work, “A Turkish Grammar-Aware Approach to Introductory Programming”, and chaired one session.
- EDE_RO, Kahramanmaraş, 2026. Notia, developed with Mustafa Gökpınar, placed third among 25 projects in the provincial high-school AI category. School report
- International AI camp, China, July 2026. One of eight students selected from Türkiye. Completed the robotics course at UESTC and received the Dawn Star award at the 2026 International Teenagers AI Robotics Innovation Challenge in Beijing. Education authority announcement
- NASA Space Apps, 2025. Participated with an AI prediction project using NASA datasets. Event report
- TEKNOFEST Pardus Error Catching and Suggestion Competition, 2024. Finalist with the Anadolu Aslanları team and the Hüma Browser project; development of the browser later continued under the Hilal name.
- TEKNOFEST Pardus Error Catching and Suggestion Competition, 2026. Took part with the GK-Developers team.
- TEKNOFEST Inter-High School UAV Competition, 2026. Software developer on the GöktürkUAV team. We passed the report stage; our aircraft crashed during the flight-proof video stage, so we could not continue.
- ENJOY AI 2026 European Open, Travnik (Bosnia and Herzegovina), October 2026. Coached a team.
- ENJOY AI 2026 Eurasia Open, Istanbul, 24–25 October 2026. Official referee in the Technical Support category. Built the scoring and live results system used at the event with Next.js and Firebase. Live results
- GençTek Summit, Ankara, 2025. Participated in student activities and AI workshops.
Open source, community and volunteering
I develop open-source projects and contribute to others. I answer questions and join discussions on forums, especially the Pardus forum. On my YouTube channel I share videos about Linux and the development of Hilal Browser and Hüma. I write technical documentation for Hüma and have published software articles on my personal blog and Medium. I am a LÖSEV volunteer.
Technical work
I have used Rust, JavaScript and TypeScript, React and Next.js, Dart and Flutter, and Python in my projects. I write most of my code together with AI tools. I use Git and Linux.
Languages
Turkish: native. English: upper-intermediate (B2). Italian, German and Chinese: beginner; I am interested in languages.