Hi, I'm Sinan!
I am a Clean Energy Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services, assisting utilities on smart grid solutions. I am highly interested in pretty much anything related to cloud computing, AI, urban planning and policy (especially mental accessibility issues), smart cities, and sustainability.
My Education
Robert College of Istanbul
Class of 2018
AP Scholar with Distinction
Activities
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Varisty Basketball Team
Co-founder of Career Development Club
Co-founder of Gordes Community Involvement Project
Turkish Representative of European Youth Parliament and WINPEACE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MSE'22 in Electrical and Computer Engineering
("Signal Processing and Machine Learning" track)
BS'21 in Computer Science
("Data and Information" & "Software Systems" tracks)
Awards and Honors
IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society
University Honors (2018,2019,2020,2021)
HackNY 2019 Fellow
My Experience
Hyfi
Ann Arbor, MI
Technical Consultant (Contract)
Oct – Dec 2022
Collaborated with Prof. Branko Kerkez on a smart water systems project. Automated the collection, pre-processing, and storage of the NOAA’s statewide rainfall data on cloud systems, which is later input into stormwater tracking models critical for early detection of flood risks and respective mitigation efforts. Set up failure notifications and past data recovery mechanisms for systemic resilience.
Amazon Web Services
Seattle, WA
Clean Energy Software Engineer
July 2024 - Present
Under the "AWS for Industries" organization, creating solutions to improve utilities’ custom-built applications to anticipate future energy demand and update their power grid as distributed clean energy resources become more popular.
Won the AWSome Award in Fall 2024, nominated by teammates for high-performance.
Amazon
New York, NY
Software Development Engineer
Jan 2023 - June 2024
Worked on Fashion Product page in projects related to social shopping. Implemented multiple DevOps process improvements. Worked with Fashion Science team during Summer 2021 as an intern on fashion shopping personalization infrastructure.
Part of the team that received the Amazon Fashion Summer Hackathon 2023 - People’s Choice Award with a Fashion Shopping Assistant LLM Chatbot prototype.
My Projects
Multi-threaded Internet Search Engine
University of Michigan Capstone Course
Jan - Apr 2021
Ann Arbor, MI
Built an index (~200M websites and ~1 TB total size) including serialization/deserialization mechanisms for data compression with another teammate.
Implemented a constraint solver that will efficiently scan our entire index and find potential matching pages to user query.
Created a query compiler, which creates a logical relationship tree of terms in the user query that the constraint solver will use to scan web pages.
Designed a multi-threaded network communication channel between our ranker and tiny server to show the results to users.
Final search engine was distributed over 10 cloud machines and can serve to multiple users in parallel with an average of 1-2 minutes response time.
The entire project was completed with a team of 6.
Cardstack Open-Source Project
May – Aug 2019
New York City, NY
Developed a movie-list tracking web application using Cardstack SDK, wrapped around Ember.js and JSON:API. Prepared documentation and video as part of Cardstack’s quick-start tutorial, showing concepts of ‘cards’ and reactive programming. Additionally worked on projects using Web3 JavaScript module and MetaMask API projects.
Cognitive ToyBox
Jun - Aug 2019
Brooklyn, NY
Automated data extracting and combining process from 30+ tables containing progress data of 10k+ preschool children on many game-based assessments by executing PostgreSQL queries using AWS Lambda, easing analysis for non-coder employees. Set up user authentication using AWS Cognito User Pool for secure customer data monitoring.
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