Volkan Gurel
Pursuing BSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in Management Science, and a Masters in Engineering at MIT. Also working as Software Developer as Summer Intern and Part-time Employee at Hunch Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | AJAX, Business, C/C++, Django, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Facebook platform, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Management, Python, SQL, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Software Developer as a part of Undergraduate Advanced Project |
| Time period: | December 2008 - Present |
| Description: | - Worked in the Viral Communications Group to design an architecture for the Open Transaction Network, a platform that uses mobile applications to enable better understanding of the impacts of social networks on consumption
- Built an interface to keep track of user purchases using Python/Django |
| Employer: | Superphotos, Cambridge, MA |
| Position: | Co-Founder & Software Developer |
| Time period: | April 2008 - Present |
| Description: | - Created a facebook application to offer a highly interactive platform to rate, sort and give badges to friends’ photos using Python/Django and the pyfacebook package (still under development) |
| Employer: | Hunch Inc, New York, NY |
| Position: | Software Developer as Summer Intern and Part-time Employee |
| Time period: | February 2008 - Present |
| Description: | - Worked in the development group at Hunch, a web start-up for a recommendation engine based on user input and machine learning
- Developed quality review and administrative pages using Python/ Django - Worked on user clustering algorithms, using Orange and Hcluster Python packages, to distribute users into groups of common interests - Used natural language processing with SOLR to detect duplicate user generated content - Built a tool for Google bid optimization and achieved significant reduction in bidding costs through optimizing default bids for a given budget |
| Employer: | Arcelik Home Appliances, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Position: | R&D Engineer as Summer Intern |
| Time period: | May 2007 - June 2007 |
| Description: | - Developed a capacitive frost sensor for a no-frost refrigerator to improve efficiency
- Researched the possibility of a smell sensor for use in ovens to determine when a meal is cooked |
| Employer: | Eko Engineering, Ankara, Turkey |
| Position: | Software Developer as Summer Intern |
| Time period: | April 2006 - July 2006 |
| Description: | - Created an integrated Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) software
- Built modules for inventory, orders, bill of materials, project management and customer relations |
EDUCATION
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MEng |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Management Science, BSc |
| University: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2004 - 2009 |
| Degree: | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Computers, Volleyball, Soccer, World Politics, Video Games, Business. Ballroom Dancing, Varsity Volleyball Team, Intramural Soccer, MIT Turkish Student Association, MIT Alumni
Association Undergraduate Giving Committee, Techcallers |
| Awards: | Academic Competence Grant
SMART Grant NECVA All-Academic Team (Volleyball) |
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Arzlan Online ERP Community
Arzlan is an online global trading community that is integrated with a free, high quality and modular Enterprise Resource Planning software package, which creates enormous value by increasing the efficiency of company operations and supply chains.
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Firat Ileri
Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Management graduate from MIT. Last worked as Research Assistant at MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity.