Brown University

Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University

Software Engineer at Indeed.com  -  vGHC

As part of Data Infrastructure group, worked on Indeed's cloud migration and now working on cloud optimizations
- Enabled internal users to use AWS EMR instead of the on-prem Hadoop cluster
- Built dashboards using Datadog to help users understand their AWS EMR usage and optimize it to their needs

Indeed.com

Senior Software Engineer

As an engineer at Indeed Hire, developed tools and features behind A/B testing using Proctor for sending emails to job seekers that are sourced and matched to Indeed Hire client jobs.
- Created integrations with Gitlab, Jenkins, and Slack for better visibility that helped to decrease the time spent on code reviews
- Launched sourcing and sending emails for Indeed Hire UK with two other engineers. Introduced string translations using Gettext to multiple applications.
- Worked on enabling matching people with remote jobs as part of a fast COVID-19 effort that helped increase hires for those jobs.
- For UK launch, worked on multiple systems with different frameworks and people from other teams.

Software Engineer

Developed tools to track liability, cost and revenue:
- Created metrics and alarms using Prometheus while working on multiple products outside team responsibility and quickly became a subject matter expert. 
- Worked on a new tool that processed event data from initial customer contact to disbursement of money. This involved creating new system interactions with Golang, AWS S3, SQS, Redshift and reporting tools that uses MySQL databases. Also, was responsible for the plan for launch.
- Introduced process to handle support with PagerDuty, Slack.

Remitly

Software Development Engineer

As part of a brand-new team, integrated personalized features to Staples.com website:
- Built a Java REST web service to integrate personalized promotion offers to .com website that is called on every browsed Staples.com page.
- Set up and helped the adaptation of tools such as Git Flow, Findbugs, Emma coverage; encouraged best practices.
Integrated new third-party search engines to Staples.com/ca sites through A/B testing. Set up back end A/B testing for services:
- Worked with vendors through the integration as the technical lead of the project.
Worked on an in-house Solr based search engine:
- Designed the migration process from the previous engine, created the schema and the configurations for indexing.
Created a process for better handling of design, implementation, code review and QA testing as part of scrum process.

Staples

Amazon Mobile
As a client developer for the front-end experience of “Amazon Shopping App on iPhone”:
- Updated UI for new features and design; integrated various HTML pages and ran A/B experiments about user experiences for native versus HTML pages; integrated “Scan It” function for barcode and image scanning.
As a new iOS developer in the AppWorks team, which focused on Research and Development of Mobile applications: 
- Helped on launching “Amazon Santa App for iPad”; built various prototypes using the accelerometer, gyroscope, camera; worked with product managers for the preparation of prototypes for user studies

Amazon

Retail Systems
Worked in the Contribution Profit (CP) Team under Retail Systems, which daily calculates shipment-based cost and revenue:
- Migrated a legacy system using Oracle databases to a new one using Java, Hadoop and Pig. Managed the cluster, created mappers and reducers, Pig scripts.
- Developed SQL queries for getting data from Amazon Data Ware House to get daily shipment information for calculations.
- Worked with the finance teams to get the correct computation values for more accurate CP calculations. Decreased the operational overload of the team.

Teaching assistant for Building Intelligent Robot class where the responsibilities included but not limited to setting up and maintaining robot, environments; teaching usage of C libraries and frameworks to students.

Teaching Assistant

As part of Display Advertising Team:
- Implemented a command tool using AWS S3 for transferring files with encryption.
- Analyzed data for predicting inventory for un-guaranteed targeted ads and initiated a simulator to determine number of impressions and revenue for the targeted ads.

Software Development Engineer Intern

Teaching assistant for 'Language Processors' class

METU

Worked in the establishment of IBM Linux Center in Ankara for the Linux education of governmental workers in Turkey

Intern

In a group of 15+ people developed a web portal using web services, RSS feeds etc. Microsoft Framework was used together with .Net technologies, SQL Server, Windows Server.

Aysun Bascetincelik