Volkan Bal, Developer in Istanbul, Turkey
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Volkan Bal

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.NET Developer

Istanbul, Turkey

Toptal member since April 18, 2022

Bio

Volkan is a back-end developer with 20+ years of diverse programming experience. He started his career by developing educational technology software for schools and then extended this capability with various tools. He forged his skills in challenging circumstances on short and strict time scales. He's always eager to learn new technologies and use his coaching skills and positive attitude to enrich his environment.

Portfolio

Dinamik Teknoloji
ASP.NET, Xamarin, REST APIs, JavaScript, LINQ, jQuery, DevExtreme...
TED Rönesans College
ASP.NET, Xamarin.Android, REST APIs, C#.NET WinForms, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)...
Teacher Academy Foundation
ASP.NET, ReSharper, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)...

Experience

  • T-SQL (Transact-SQL) - 20 years
  • C# - 15 years
  • C#.NET WinForms - 12 years
  • ASP.NET - 10 years
  • .NET Core - 4 years
  • REST APIs - 4 years
  • LINQ - 4 years
  • DevExpress - 3 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

C#, C#.NET WinForms, .NET Core, ASP.NET, DevExpress, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)

The most amazing...

...thing I've developed is a school management system that won awards on several educational fair competitions.

Work Experience

Senior .NET Developer | Founder Partner

2020 - PRESENT
Dinamik Teknoloji
  • Developed a complete manufacturing resource planning system solution for factories.
  • Built a warehouse management system with .NET C# back end and Android front end.
  • Tracked and fixed bugs using GLPI as a reporting tool.
Technologies: ASP.NET, Xamarin, REST APIs, JavaScript, LINQ, jQuery, DevExtreme, ASP.NET Razor, C#, C#.NET WinForms, .NET Core, Bootstrap 3, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), SQL, .NET, REST, C#.NET, Entity Framework

Senior .NET Developer

2015 - 2020
TED Rönesans College
  • Developed an in-house school information system that was nominated for GESS Awards – Best Use of Digital Learning in the Classroom.
  • Increased workflow efficiency, saving 10% in administrative budget.
  • Increased customer satisfaction by 8% by replacing innovative methods with conventional methods.
  • Designed technology hardware infrastructure and created and updated the IT procedures.
Technologies: ASP.NET, Xamarin.Android, REST APIs, C#.NET WinForms, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Bootstrap 3, jQuery, SQL, .NET, REST, C#.NET, SQL Server 2016

Senior .NET Developer

2008 - 2015
Teacher Academy Foundation
  • Managed and designed the Foundation’s distance-learning portal, which provides online education for 80,000 teachers.
  • Designed and developed an in-house platform for managing and tracking in-service training.
  • Developed a 360-degree performance feedback system for the HR.
Technologies: ASP.NET, ReSharper, Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), Windows Forms (WinForms), SPSS, IBM SPSS, Crystal Reports, SQL, .NET, C#.NET

Manufacturing Resource Planning System | Dinamik – KÜP

With its customizable structure, the KÜP program can turn into the system that manufacturing businesses want. It is a flexible platform with definable user interfaces, business rules, reports, and forms. It has a variety of technological and architectural infrastructure necessary to fully adapt to the business processes of the enterprise.

This solution can be fully adapted to a business, with user interfaces that can be arranged to include only the necessary information, additional modules prepared for user's business processes, data fields that can be defined according to their needs, and reports and forms that are arranged or added if needed.
1996 - 2021

Bachelor's Degree in Physics Education

Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey

2001 - 2004

Master's Degree in Physics Education

Bogazici University - Istanbul, Turkey

Libraries/APIs

LINQ, Xamarin.Android, REST APIs, jQuery, DevExtreme, Windows Forms (WinForms), Entity Framework

Tools

C#.NET WinForms, Visual Studio, ReSharper, SPSS, IBM SPSS, Crystal Reports

Languages

C#, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C#.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Active Server Pages (ASP), SQL, ASP.NET Razor, Pascal, VB, Java, JavaScript

Frameworks

ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core, Bootstrap 3

Paradigms

REST

Storage

SQL Server 2016, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedures

Platforms

Xamarin

Other

DevExpress, DevExpress Controls

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