Koray Kural, Developer in Istanbul, Turkey
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Koray Kural

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Bio

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

Whitesand
NestJS, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, APIs, Git, TypeORM, Jest...
Online Freelance Agency
Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, APIs, Stripe API...
Teamfluencer
TypeScript, MongoDB, APIs, NoSQL, Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end...

Experience

TypeScript - 3 yearsPostgreSQL - 3 yearsJavaScript - 3 yearsNode.js - 3 yearsAngular - 3 yearsMongoDB - 2 yearsTypeORM - 1 yearNestJS - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Slack, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is ituprogram.com, my first real-world project at the beginning of my career that helped many students at my university.

Work Experience

Junior Back-end Developer

2021 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: NestJS, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, APIs, Git, TypeORM, Jest, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end, Cloud, REST APIs, ChatGPT, SQL, Express.js, Full-stack, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Containerization, Multitenancy, API Integration, Amazon RDS, Jira, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Full-stack Web Developer

2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, APIs, Stripe API, Front-end Development, Tailwind CSS, React, NoSQL, Git, CSS, Material UI, Jest, Puppeteer, HTML, Data Scraping, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end, Cloud, REST APIs, SQL, Express.js, MEAN Stack, Full-stack, API Integration, Angular Material, AngularJS

Senior Back-end Developer

2019 - 2020
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.
Technologies: TypeScript, MongoDB, APIs, NoSQL, Git, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Back-end, REST APIs, Express.js, MEAN Stack, Mongoose, AWS Lambda

Sorting Algorithms Visualizer

https://sorting-algorithms.vercel.app
I developed this straightforward Angular project when I was learning Angular. It does not showcase my skillset perfectly, but I like it as it reflects my engineering perspective. It is a sorting algorithm that allows choosing a selection sort.
2017 - 2022

Bachelor's Degree (Ongoing) in Computer Engineering

Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey

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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