Koray Kural
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Istanbul, Turkey
Toptal member since June 8, 2022
Koray, a final year computer science student at Istanbul Technical University, has been interested in web development for three years now. He has developed several personal and freelance projects using multiple technologies. Koray specializes in back-end development with JavaScript frameworks.
Portfolio
Experience
- TypeScript - 3 years
- PostgreSQL - 3 years
- JavaScript - 3 years
- Node.js - 3 years
- Angular - 3 years
- MongoDB - 2 years
- TypeORM - 1 year
- NestJS - 1 year
Work Experience
Junior Back-end Developer
Whitesand
- Developed new features for an existing SaaS project.
- Maintained the existing codebase to improve code quality and reliability.
- Used Jira, Slack, and Sococo to facilitate communication among teams and team members.
- Performed peer code reviews to help seniors spend more time on other tasks.
Full-stack Web Developer
Online Freelance Agency
- Developed an app for users to create listings that other people can bid on.
- Built an eCommerce front end to an existing back end using Angular.
- Developed scraper bots for multiple golf course websites that can fetch golf tee times and make reservations automatically.
- Built a Chrome extension tool that makes charts fullscreen on a trade review website.
- Built a SaaS platform with file sharing, accounting, and project collaboration apps.
Senior Back-end Developer
Teamfluencer
- Developed a back-end API for a marketing startup from scratch.
- Managed an intern to help me with the development process.
- Managed DevOps to deploy both the front and back ends and used many AWS services.
- Wrote integration and unit tests to maintain a higher quality.
- Integrated payment methods to receive payments from companies and distribute them to influencers.
Project History
Sorting Algorithms Visualizer
Education
Bachelor's Degree (Ongoing) in Computer Engineering
Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, REST APIs, Stripe API, React, Puppeteer
Tools
Git, Mongoose, Slack, Figma, ChatGPT, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Jira, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, SQL, Python, CSS, C++
Frameworks
Tailwind CSS, Express.js, Angular, NestJS, Material UI, Angular Material, AngularJS, Jest
Paradigms
MEAN Stack
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, NoSQL
Platforms
MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), AWS Lambda, Heroku
Other
Back-end, Full-stack, TypeORM, APIs, Front-end Development, Data Scraping, API Integration, Engineering, Programming, Cloud, Containerization, Multitenancy, Amazon RDS
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