Tunç is available for hire

Tunç Türkmen

Verified Expert in Engineering

Full-stack Developer

Vienna, Austria

Toptal member since November 30, 2021

Expertise

Front-end Full-stack Animation Vanilla JS JavaScript CSS REST APIs Redux React Node.js Electron Express.js PostgreSQL TypeScript Next.js

Bio

Tunç is a full-stack developer and designer with 7+ years of experience in web applications and design. He's skilled in JavaScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, as well as UI design. He has designed over 40 websites, developed and shipped six web production applications, and prototyped over ten projects. Tunç takes the initiative for the tasks ahead, listens and reacts to the job's requirements, and values being a great team member.

Portfolio

Renegade Publishing Inc.

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL...

Textile Art Platform

Next.js, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CSS, Redux, MySQL...

Stella Stays

React, Figma, Apollo, Firebase, API Databases, CSS, API Integration, Mapbox...

Experience

JavaScript - 8 years Node.js - 5 years React - 5 years TypeScript - 4 years PostgreSQL - 4 years Next.js - 3 years Figma - 3 years MongoDB - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Next.js, Figma, Node.js, React, Firebase, MongoDB, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS

The most amazing...

...thing I've designed and developed is a hospitality website for Stella Stays that increased the amount of direct bookings by 35%.

Work Experience

Full-stack Engineer (via Toptal)

2022 - 2024

Renegade Publishing Inc.

Designed and developed a digital rights management system for a SaaS company that helps companies easily and accurately collect their revenues and royalties.
Developed a system, using AWS Lambda and Node.js, that analyses the royalties and gives insights based on the past revenues that the company collected for each client.
Used a powerful AI tool and introduced a feature that analyses every audio file on the system. With this data, we give insights and suggestions to the company administrators to use their catalog more accurately and present it to future clients.

Technologies: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CSS, API Integration, Node.js, JSON REST APIs, REST APIs, Full-stack, Front-end Development, SCSS, Vanilla JS, CSS Animations, Front-end, Animation, Amazon Cognito, Tailwind UI, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Vercel, GitHub

Full-stack Developer and UI Designer

2019 - 2021

Textile Art Platform

Designed and developed an online gallery using the MERN stack. It helps textile students and textile artists engage with each other and see their work all over the world.
Connected four different Next.js apps as an ecosystem where users can engage between the apps. With a customized Google Firebase Authentication system and the power of Node.js, back-end users have their permission levels and authentication system.
Helped build the main website with over 10,000 users in the first month after the launch, with the marketing team's help.

Technologies: Next.js, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CSS, Redux, MySQL, API Integration, JSON REST APIs, REST APIs, Full-stack, Electron, Front-end Development, SCSS, Vanilla JS, CSS Animations, Front-end, Animation, Tailwind UI, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Vercel, GitHub

Lead Front-end Developer and Designer

2019 - 2021

Stella Stays

Developed and designed three different web apps with React that are up-to-date standards. These web apps have a custom CSS framework written for every project and the shared task modules written in JavaScript.
Solved UX problems such as performance issues due to memory leaks, incomprehensible button designs, and incorrect and hard-to-understand data visualization.
Increased the direct bookings by 35% with the fresh new UI design and React code.

Technologies: React, Figma, Apollo, Firebase, API Databases, CSS, API Integration, Mapbox, Front-end Development, SCSS, Vanilla JS, CSS Animations, Front-end, Animation, Jira, Material Design, Tailwind UI, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), GitHub

Freelance Developer

2014 - 2020

Freelancer

Developed various MERN stack websites and designed UIs for small to mid-sized companies all over the world.
Created three different mobile games using Blender as 3D software and Unity (C#) as development language.
Developed various DX tools that help developers code in a faster, more efficient, and more stable way.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Next.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Firebase, Figma, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, CSS, Redux, MySQL, API Integration, Node.js, NoSQL, JSON REST APIs, REST APIs, Full-stack, Electron, Front-end Development, SCSS, Vanilla JS, CSS Animations, PHP, WordPress, Front-end, Animation, Jira, Amazon Cognito, Tailwind UI, Vercel, GitHub

Experience

Stella Stays

https://stellastays.com

A React app for Stella Stays, where I served as a lead front-end developer for two years. You can directly book a room, search for rooms within the map and get suggested results based on your older search history, as well as contact managers and edit your bookings.

Textile Art Platform

https://textileartplatform.com

A Next.js and Node.js app for textile art lovers from all over the world. Users can search for new talents, top-class artists, view famous academicians, and browse online galleries. They can also create their own artist profiles and apply for creating an online gallery and showcase their works online.

Turkmen Mimarlik

https://www.turkmenmimarlik.com/

A Next.js app for a 25-year-old architecture firm located in Istanbul, Turkey. They needed to showcase their work in a beautiful and modern way, so I've designed and developed a website from scratch.

Nerede App

https://nerede.app

A Next.js and Node.js app that scans the Turkish online streaming services on an hourly basis for the new releases. So that users can find where to watch these movies and shows, see their short descriptions, trailer, and cast, mostly provided by TMDB, less likely from the scraping source. This app is in the beta process.

Education

2017 - 2021

Bachelor's Degree in Graphics

University of Marmara - Istanbul, Turkey

Certifications

FEBRUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Visual Elements of User Interface Design

Coursera

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, REST APIs

Tools

Adobe Illustrator, Figma, React Apollo, Amazon Cognito, GitHub, Jira

Languages

JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, GraphQL, PHP, C++

Frameworks

Next.js, Express.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux, Electron, Vanilla JS

Storage

MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, API Databases, NoSQL

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Mapbox, WordPress, Vercel, Firebase

Paradigms

Generic Programming

Other

API Integration, JSON REST APIs, Full-stack, Front-end Development, CSS Animations, Front-end, Animation, Tailwind UI, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Algorithms, Apollo, VPS/VDS, Material Design

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