# CV — Egehan Kahraman Canonical: https://egehankahraman.vercel.app/cv Language: en Author: Egehan Kahraman Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye [egehankahraman0@gmail.com](mailto:egehankahraman0@gmail.com) · [GitHub: VastSea0](https://github.com/VastSea0) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/egehan-kahraman/) · [egehankahraman.vercel.app](https://egehankahraman.vercel.app) 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](https://egehankahraman.vercel.app/projeler/youthx-research) **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](https://github.com/VastSea0/huma-lang) **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](https://github.com/VastSea0/hilal-browser) **Notia** — A photo-journaling application I am developing with Flutter and Dart, built around adding notes to photographs and finding past entries. [Source code](https://github.com/VastSea0/notia) **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 **Merge Paws: Cat World** — A cat-merging game I published on Google Play. [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vastsea.mergepaws) **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](https://vastsea0.itch.io/marashs-gangs) **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](https://github.com/VastSea0/chinese-prject) ## 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](https://ilhangulecal.meb.k12.tr/icerikler/ederodayapayzekakategorisiil3su_17527314.html) - **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](https://onikisubat.meb.gov.tr/www/uluslararasi-yapay-zeka-kampi039nda-gururlandiran-basari/icerik/2338/tr) - **NASA Space Apps, 2025.** Participated with an AI prediction project using NASA datasets. [Event report](https://kahramanmaras.bel.tr/haber/2025/10/06/buyuksehir-global-nasa-etkinligine-ev-sahipligi-yapti) - **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](https://enjoy-ai-istanbul.vercel.app/tr/leaderboard) - **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](https://www.youtube.com/@egehankhrmn) 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. ## PDF [Download the English CV](https://egehankahraman.vercel.app/documents/egehan-kahraman-cv.en.pdf)