Zeki Gurbuz

United States

@zekidgurbuz

Turing Scholar @ UT Austin

Badges

Problem Solving
CPP
Java

Certifications

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer

    ForeFlight•  May 2022 - Present

    - Coded in Swift using the SwiftUI framework and PencilKit to implement an entirely new flight plan signing feature for FDPx+, allowing pilots to sign off on an OFP before takeoff - Implemented key features of FDPDesignKit for the FDPx+ team, consolidating UI components into an easily modifiable and interactive library for developers - Drastically reduced the amount of time needed to draft UI features by maintaining a very concise dependency graph (allowing the efficient use of Xcode previews), and increasing guarantees of conformance to spec by breaking down UI to the "atomic level" - Learned about the MVVM pattern, dependency injection, and Objective-C networking

  • Software Engineer

    A+ Computer Science•  May 2021 - August 2021

    - Worked on full stack development of a website used by teachers/students across Texas - Developed a versatile online IDE using the LAMP stack to handle Java/Python coding - Employed AJAX techniques to save and retrieve files efficiently through PHP/SQL - Helped to catch and fix security vulnerabilities such as PyJails in the online IDE itself - Fixed numerous structural flaws in the codebase and thoroughly cleaned up JS code - Created algorithmic contest problems for high school students that covered topics such as OOP, data structures, and more advanced algorithms

Education

  • University of Texas at Austin, Austin

    Computer Science, BS•  August 2021 - Present

    Turing Scholars Honors; Mathematics double major

  • Cypress Woods High School

    Computer Science, High School Diploma•  August 2017 - June 2021

    Took advanced mathematics and computer science classes; salutatorian.

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